Article 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Section 49-15-1 - Public policy of the state as to seafood laws
- Section 49-15-1.1 - Assent to Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act and Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act
- Section 49-15-2 - Standards for fishery conservation and management; fishery management plans
- Section 49-15-3 - Definitions
- Section 49-15-5 - All seafoods initially the property of the state
- Section 49-15-7 - Oyster, clam, cay shells and other shells declared to be property of state
- Section 49-15-9 - Rights of riparian owners on Gulf Coast defined
- Section 49-15-11 - Mississippi Department of Marine Resources; transfer of certain powers and duties from Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks; Executive Director of the Department of Marine Resources; definition of terms; composition of department; personnel to be appointed by executive director
- Section 49-15-12 - Transfer of duties to comply with Sections 5-11-1 through 5-11-5; personnel actions; merit promotion system
- Section 49-15-13 - [Repealed]
- Section 49-15-15 - Powers and duties of Department of Marine Resources regarding regulation of seafood
- Section 49-15-16 - Limited entry fisheries management program
- Section 49-15-17 - Seafood Fund; special accounts; sources of funds
- Section 49-15-18 - Distribution of chapter
- Section 49-15-19 - Attorney General; designation of deputies or assistants; legal advisors to commission and department
- Section 49-15-21 - Enforcement officers; reserve unit
- Section 49-15-22 - Marine patrol officers of Department of Marine Resources permitted to keep side arm upon retirement
- Section 49-15-23 - Establishment of dividing line between salt and fresh waters; notice
- Section 49-15-25 - Advisory council may be appointed by department
- Section 49-15-27 - Department granted authority to lease bottoms
- Section 49-15-28 - Seafood dealer license; seafood processor license; fees; applicability of section
- Section 49-15-29 - Taxes and license fees to be collected by the department
- Section 49-15-30 - Department may promulgate regulations for nonresident permits, reciprocity; penalties
- Section 49-15-31 - Department to maintain and operate patrol stations, camps and related facilities; reciprocity
- Section 49-15-33 - [Repealed]
- Section 49-15-34 - Boats used in other states; license and fee requirements; transport permits
- Section 49-15-35 - Authority to regulate taking and catching of menhaden
- Section 49-15-36 - State-owned oyster reefs and bottoms; rotating opening; closing of oyster reefs; special permits for taking oysters during closed season; depuration
- Section 49-15-37 - Cultivation of state-owned oyster reefs; removal of oysters from restricted areas
- Section 49-15-38 - Culling requirements; collection and planting of shells; penalties and fees for failure to deliver shells
- Section 49-15-39 - [Repealed]
- Section 49-15-40 - Projects to create or establish new oyster beds
- Section 49-15-40.1 - [Repealed]
- Section 49-15-41 - Oysters not to be caught at night
- Section 49-15-42 - Tagging, unloading and transporting of oysters
- Section 49-15-43 - Packaging of oysters; containers
- Section 49-15-44 - Sale or possession of illegal oysters prohibited; penalties
- Section 49-15-45 - Certain municipalities may enforce oyster laws
- Section 49-15-46 - Licensing and fees for vessels engaged in catching, taking, carrying or transporting oysters; licensing and fees for molluscan shellfish aquaculture operation; transfer of vessel license; tagging of oysters harvested; recreational oyster permits; shell retention fees; authority to keep certain number of blue crabs for personal consumption
- Section 49-15-47 - Prohibition against discharging human waste in Mississippi's marine waters from vessels harvesting or transporting oysters; approved marine sanitation devices required; penalties
- Section 49-15-49 - Pass Christian Harbor oyster check station named the Colonel George J. Wright, Sr., building
- Section 49-15-51 through 49-15-59 - [Repealed]
- Section 49-15-61 - Marine museum
- Section 49-15-63 - Penalties
- Section 49-15-64 - Shrimping during closed season prohibited; penalties; promulgation of rules and regulations
- Section 49-15-64.1 - Shrimp season: waters closed to shrimping
- Section 49-15-64.2 - Shrimping permitted with cast net
- Section 49-15-64.3 - Shrimping during closed season prohibited; penalties; promulgation of rules and regulations
- Section 49-15-64.4 - Live bait catcher boat and live bait dealer privilege taxes
- Section 49-15-64.5 - Boats used for catching or transporting saltwater shrimp; licensing and fees
- Section 49-15-65 - Jurisdiction of courts; appeals
- Section 49-15-67 - Appellate procedure
- Section 49-15-69 - Exemption of certain minors, senior citizens or disabled persons from licensing requirements
- Section 49-15-71 - Commercial taking of redfish prohibited; unlawful to take below minimum size; penalties; redfish management plan
- Section 49-15-73 - Use of aircraft to assist in harvesting of redfish; penalties
- Section 49-15-74 - Open season for menhaden
- Section 49-15-75 - Catch limit based on weight limitations as to certain fish
- Section 49-15-76 - Prohibition of sale of game fish; exceptions; punishment
- Section 49-15-77 - Prohibition against catching saltwater fish by use of certain nets, seines or traps in certain areas of the state; punishment
- Section 49-15-78 - Prohibition against using gill net, trammel net, entanglement net, or like contrivance for taking finfish within half a mile of the shoreline; prohibition against using haul seine net for taking fish within half a mile of Cat Island; punishment
- Section 49-15-79 - Prohibition of use of purse seine offshore from Hancock or Harrison Counties; promulgation of regulations governing use of gill nets and trammel nets in Hancock, Harrison, and Jackson Counties; punishment
- Section 49-15-80 - Vessels used to catch or transport fish; licensing and fees; nonresident reciprocity
- Section 49-15-81 - Catching or transporting saltwater minnows for sale; license requirements; fees; tagging of minnow traps to mark ownership; exemptions
- Section 49-15-83 - Interpretation and application of Sections 49-15-71 through 49-15-81
- Section 49-15-84 - Requirements for the taking of crabs; crab traps
- Section 49-15-84.1 - Closed season for use of crab traps; removal of abandoned traps
- Section 49-15-85 - [Repealed]
- Section 49-15-86 - Commercial and recreational crabbing licenses
- Section 49-15-87 - "Peeler crab" and "soft-shell crab" defined
- Section 49-15-89 - Unlawful to catch, destroy, confine, hold or have in possession certain crabs
- Section 49-15-91 - Regulatory authority for maximum number of crab pots allowable per licensee
- Section 49-15-92 - Penalties for theft of crab traps or crabs
- Section 49-15-93 - Penalties
- Section 49-15-94 - Use of purse seine to catch mullet during roe mullet season; penalties
- Section 49-15-95 - Use of brill and cast nets
- Section 49-15-96 - Keeping of certain fish caught in shrimp nets for personal consumption
- Section 49-15-97 - Requirement that commercial fishing vessels use approved lights; penalties
- Section 49-15-98 - [Repealed]
- Section 49-15-99 - [Repealed]
- Section 49-15-100 - Usage of gill or trammel nets in certain marine waters; penalties
- Section 49-15-100.1 - Forfeiture of vessels, motors and equipment used in violation of Section 49-15-100
- Section 49-15-100.3 - Prima facie evidence of use of prohibited equipment