Texas Parks and Wildlife Code
§ 66.020 — SALE AND PURCHASE OF PROTECTED FISH
PW § 66.020Title 5. WILDLIFE AND PLANT CONSERVATION · Part B. HUNTING AND FISHING · Ch. 66. FISH AND AQUATIC PLANTS · Art. A. PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO FRESHWATER AND SALTWATER FISHING AND AQUATIC PLANTS
Statute text
View on source(a)It is unlawful for any person to buy or offer to buy, sell or offer to sell, possess for the purpose of sale, transport or ship for the purpose of sale, barter, or exchange bass of the genus Micropterus, blue marlin, crappie, flathead catfish, jewfish, longbill spearfish, muskellunge, northern pike, red drum, sailfish, sauger, snook, spotted sea trout, striped bass, tarpon, walleye, white bass, white marlin, yellow bass, or hybrids of any of those fish.
(b)This section applies to the possession, transportation, sale, or purchase of any fish described by Subsection (a) without regard to where the fish was taken, caught, or raised, but does not apply to:
(1)the transportation or possession of fish taken, caught, or raised outside this state and transported by common carrier without being unloaded from outside this state to a point of delivery outside this state;
(2)fish raised by being continuously fed a prepared feed and sold by an operator of a Texas commercial aquaculture facility, as defined by Section 134.001, Agriculture Code;
(3)the sale of fish described by Subdivision (2) by:
(A)a licensed wholesale fish dealer;
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Legislative history
Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 848 (S.B. 703), Sec. 54, eff. September 1, 2021. Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 129 (H.B. 1333), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2023.