22 Miss. Code. R. 7-09-100
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation, to barter, sell, offer for sale or transport for sale or possess for sale in or from the State of Mississippi the following named species offish under the lengths prescribed:
100.01 Red Drum -
eighteen (18) inches (total length).
100.02 Spotted Seatrout - fourteen (14)
inches (total length).
100.03
flounders (Paralicthys sp.) - twelve (12) inches (total
length).
100.04 Tripletail
(Lobotes surinamensis) eighteen (18) inches total
length.
100.05 mullet
(Mugil sp.) - ten (10) inches (total length).
100.06 Spanish Mackerel
(Scomberomorus maculatus) - twelve (12) inches (fork
length).
100.07 King Mackerel
(Scomberomorus cavalla) - twenty-four (24) inches (fork
length).
100.08 Red Snapper -
thirteen (13) inches (total length).
100.09 Vermillion Snapper - ten (10) inches
(total length).
100.10 Lane Snapper
- eight (8) inches (total length).
100.11 Mutton Snapper - eighteen (18) inches
(total length)
100.12 Gray,
Mahogany, Schoolmaster, Dog, Cubera, and Yellowtail Snapper - twelve (12)
inches (total length).
100.13
Blackfin, Queen, Silk and Wenchman snapper - no minimum length.
100.14 Tilefish - no minimum
length.
100.15 Red Grouper -
eighteen (18) inches (total length).
100.16 Yellowfin Grouper - twenty (20) inches
(total length).
100.17 Black
Grouper - twenty-four (24) inches (total length).
100.18 Gag Grouper - twenty-four (24) inches
(total length).
100.19 Scamp -
sixteen (16) inches (total length).
100.20 Yellowmouth, Rock Hind, Red Hind
Grouper - no minimum length.
100.21
Misty, Snowy Yellowedge, Warsaw, Speckled Hind Grouper - no minimum
length.
100.22 Gray Triggerfish -
fourteen (14) inches (fork length).
100.23 Hogfish (lachnolaimus maximus)
- fourteen (14) inches (fork length).
100.24 Greater Amberjack - thirty-six (36)
inches (fork length).
100.25 Lesser
Amberjack and Banded Rudderfish - may possess fish between fourteen (14) inches
(fork length) to twenty-two (22) inches fork length.
100.26 Bigeye Tuna (Thunnus obesus) -
twenty-seven (27) inches as measured from the tip of the upper jaw to
the fork of the tail along the contour of the middle of the body (curved fork
length).
100.27 Yellowfin Tuna
(Thunnus albacares) - twenty-seven (27) inches as measured
from the tip of the upper jaw to the fork of the tail along the contour of the
middle of the body (curved fork length).
100.28 Small Coastal Sharks - twenty-five
(25) inches total length
100.29
Large Coastal Sharks - thirty-seven (37) inches total length
Notes
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