Notice of Change/Withdrawal

FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION
Freshwater Fish and Wildlife
RULE NO: RULE TITLE
68A-23.002: General Methods of Taking Freshwater Fish
NOTICE OF CORRECTION
Notice is hereby given that the following correction has been made to the proposed rule in Vol. 34 No. 1, January 4, 2008 issue of the Florida Administrative Weekly.

Subsection (3) of the above proposed rule was incorrectly printed in the FAW.

68A-23.002 General Methods of Taking Freshwater Fish.

(3) Nongame fish may be taken by hook and line, rod and reel or by trotlines, set lines or bush hooks (as specified in Rule 68A- 23.004, F.A.C.), or by traps, nets or other devices as specified in Rule 68A-23.003, F.A.C. Nongame fish may be taken for personal use by any person possessing a valid freshwater fishing license by the use of not more than one slat basket or one wire trap, made as specified in Rule 68A-23.003, F.A.C., in those waters where the use of wire traps or slat baskets is permitted for commercial purposes as specified in subsection 68A-23.003(2), F.A.C. Nongame fish may be taken at night by bow and arrow and gigs and during daylight hours by manually operated spears, gigs, snatch hooks, crossbow or bow and arrow from a boat or from shore except at the spillways of the Eureka and Rodman Dams on the Oklawaha River or on the spillway of the Jim Woodruff Dam on the Apalachicola River or in Dade County canals south of the C-4 and east of the L-31N and L-31W canals inclusively. Nongame fish may be taken by the use of cast nets of any mesh size in the South and Northeast rRegions, in Citrus and Glades Countyies, and in the Southwest Region, except that possession or use of cast nets in waters adjoining Saddle Creek Fish Management Area, Polk County, confined by Morgan Combee Road, U.S. Highway 92 and Fish Hatchery Road are prohibited.