Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF0789

2E Relating to game and fish; expanding the definitions of minnows and undressed
bird; expanding the authority of the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) to
dispose of or destroy or to issue special permits to dispose of or destroy
undesirable or predatory wild animals; restricting the issuance of replacement
deer hunting licenses; specifying certain requirements for the issuance of
resident hunting licenses; suspending the validity of fishing licenses issued to
residents of other states or provinces prohibiting Minnesota residents from
fishing during a part of the open season for fishing in the state or province
during the first portion of the open Minnesota season, requiring purchase by the
nonresidents of limited fishing and fishing boat licenses, exempting registered
hotel, motel or resort guests from the restrictions; requiring parental
supervision of minors under a certain age to hunt turkey; clarifying the
eligibility of owners or tenants of agricultural land to hunt antlerless deer on
the land with a free license; restricting the authority of certain minors to
trap small game without a license; authorizing the commissioner of natural
resources to give first preference to qualified military service members or
veterans in drawings or lotteries involving the selection of applicants for
certain hunting or fishing licenses, permits or special permits, excepting
licenses or permits for taking moose, elk or prairie chickens; modifying certain
requirements for the issuance of special permits for field trials and training
hunting dogs; modifying the requirement for classroom instruction for trappers
and requiring the issuance of certificates by the trappers association
conducting the courses to trappers upon completion of the course, requiring
trapper education certificates for the issuance of trapper licenses to certain
persons born after a certain date; modifying certain requirements for the use of
scopes by visually impaired hunters and authorizing the use of laser sights by
totally blind persons with a disability using assisted hunting opportunities;
prohibiting computer assisted remote hunting; eliminating the permit requirement
to take fox, bobcat and lynx with a snare; extending the open season for certain
upland game birds; restricting the opening of the regular duck season; further
restricting the authority to take migratory waterfowl on open water; expanding
the authority of the commissioner to restrict the use of motorized decoys;
expanding a certain provision regulating the frequency of tending body gripping
traps to all traps and snares; modifying commissioner authority to dispose of
fish hatchery products; clarifying certain requirements for the measurement of
fish length; modifying the season for possession of nets and spears for fishing
purposes and for the taking of walleye, sauger, northern pike, muskellunge and
large and smallmouth bass; modifying the size limit for walleyed pike and the
net limits for Lake of the Woods and Rainy Lake; authorizing the commissioner to
use a good cause exemption to amend rules to conform to the fish measurement
changes; repealing certain provisions relating to fishing restrictions for brook
trout, the use of vehicles for trapping beaver and otter, the Mississippi River
fish refuge and certain restrictions for walleye fishing on Rainy River, Rainy
Lake and Lake of the Woods
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