Section NR 24.06 - Clamming methods and equipment(1) METHODS. (a) No person may engage in clamming or commercial clam shelling except by hand while diving or wading or by the use of crow-foot bars.(b) No person may commit malicious waste by discarding clams into the waters or on lands governed by Wisconsin.(c) No person may intentionally damage or break a clam to make determination of its original size or species impossible.(d) A person engaging in clamming or commercial clam shelling shall promptly return all undersize clams and all clams of a species not open to clamming or commercial clam shelling, respectively, to the bed of the water at the location where the clams were found. The clams shall be returned unopened and unharmed.(e) No person may cook clams unless the person is a licensed clam buyer or the person cooks the clams for a licensed clam buyer and the person is the buyer's licensed assistant clam buyer or licensed clam helper.(2) EQUIPMENT. (a) No person may use a crow-foot bar longer than 20 feet while clamming or commercial clam shelling.(b) No person may place more than 3 crow-foot bars in the water while clamming or commercial clam shelling.(c) No person may possess more than 3 crow-foot bars while in or on the inland, boundary or outlying waters.(d) No person may use more than one boat for clamming or for commercial clam shelling with crow-foot bars.Wis. Admin. Code Department of Natural Resources NR 24.06
Cr. Register, May, 1987, No. 377, eff. 6-1-87.