SB-0869, As Passed Senate, March 26, 2014
March 12, 2014, Introduced by Senators HANSEN, JONES, CASPERSON, BOOHER, MARLEAU, JANSEN and EMMONS and referred to the Committee on Outdoor Recreation and Tourism.
A bill to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled
"Natural resources and environmental protection act,"
by amending section 48716 (MCL 324.48716), as added by 1995 PA 57.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 48716. A person shall not take, catch, or kill or attempt
to take, catch, or kill any fish of the species named in this
section in any of the waters over which this state has jurisdiction
except during the following open seasons:
(a)
Largemouth and smallmouth black bass from the Saturday
immediately
preceding Memorial Day to December 31, except in Lake
St.
Clair and the St. Clair and Detroit Rivers, in which waters the
open
season is from the third Saturday in June to December 31.
(a) (b)
Bluegills and sunfish, no closed
season.
(b) (c)
Northern pike, pike-perch, and
muskellunge from the
last Saturday in April to March 15 in the inland waters. These fish
may be taken at any time from lake Macatawa, Ottawa county;
Muskegon lake and White lake, Muskegon county; Spring lake,
Muskegon and Ottawa counties; Pentwater lake, Oceana county; Pere
Marquette lake, Mason county; Manistee lake, Bar lake at Arcadia,
and Portage lake, Manistee county; Betsie lake, Benzie county; lake
Charlevoix and Round lake, Charlevoix county; the Muskegon river
downstream from Rogers dam, Mecosta county; and Lake Erie and the
connecting waters of the Great Lakes. In Lakes Superior, Michigan,
and Huron, except Saginaw bay, these fish may be taken from May 21
to March 31. In Saginaw bay, these fish may be taken from April 11
to March 4. In that part of upper Lake Huron known as Whitney bay,
Pike bay, Island harbor, Les Cheneaux channels, Potagannissing bay,
and certain waters on the south side of Drummond island, all as
described in sections 47345, 47346, 47348, and 47349, these fish
may be taken from May 1 to March 31.
(c) (d)
Brook trout, brown trout, rainbow
trout, lake trout,
splake, and landlocked salmon from the last Saturday in April
through the second Sunday in September in the inland waters. The
department shall designate the waters in which, in addition to the
season provided for in this subdivision, any species of trout and
in addition other fish for which the season is open may be taken
with hook and line only during additional open seasons that the
department prescribes.
(d) (e)
All species of trout except lake
trout from the first
Saturday in April to November 30 in the Great Lakes and connecting
waters not otherwise closed to their taking. There is no closed
season on lake trout in these waters.
(e) (f)
Perch, saugers, white bass, rock
bass, warmouth bass,
crappies, catfish, bullheads, ciscoes, herring, whitefish, pilot
fish or menominee whitefish, smelt, suckers, mullet, redhorse carp,
buffalo, shad, garfish, dogfish, lawyers, and sheepshead may be
taken at all seasons of the year in waters that are open to
fishing.
(f) (g)
Sturgeon during January and
February from inland
waters; at any time from waters of the Great Lakes and connecting
waters not otherwise closed to their taking.