All Roll Calls
Yes: 138 • No: 6
OklahomaSB 777Oklahoma 2026 Regular SessionSenate
Wildlife; allowing certain harvesting of fish and aquatic species. Effective date.
Sponsored By: Shane Jett (Republican)
Became Law
Senate Committee
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 2 costs, 2 mixed.
Fish producers face wild-fish sales limits
Beginning November 1, 2025, Oklahoma producers must keep farmed aquatic species on their licensed lands and waters, separate from public-water wildlife. Wild-born species—born in public waters, not introduced through aquaculture—cannot become part of commercial production in public waters. Sellers cannot sell or attempt to sell public-water game fish or paddlefish mixed with privately produced fish, except through the licensed recirculating-system propagation rules. Producers cannot raise species of special concern, except paddlefish, or species barred by agency rules or federal threatened-or-endangered lists. The law also classifies hybrid striped bass as game fish and defines blue and channel catfish as forked-tail catfish.
Live-fish sellers face fees and paperwork
Beginning November 1, 2025, Oklahoma’s agriculture department may charge import fees to certain businesses selling live fish in the state. Covered sellers lack a valid department-issued commercial production license paired with an Oklahoma address subject to regular inspections. Fees must reflect costs Oklahoma producers face when exporting fish to other states; the law sets no fee amount. Each covered shipment must include a valid Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service health certificate.
Fish breeders gain options with limits
Beginning November 1, 2025, licensed producers can legally collect game and nongame breeding fish from Oklahoma public waters. Collection cannot exceed a recreational fishing license holder’s normal possession limit and must follow state wildlife department terms. These breeding fish must be used only in recirculating aquaculture systems; producers cannot sell them or release them into the wild. Meat and finished food products from captive-spawned fish can be sold in Oklahoma or elsewhere, with required export permits. Live-fish sales remain subject to agency rules, while the wildlife department generally cannot restrict how licensees gather or impound farm-raised species, subject to governing laws.
State fish breeders gain transaction options
Beginning November 1, 2025, Oklahoma’s wildlife department may create a breeding-fish transaction process for licensed aquatic producers located in Oklahoma. It may charge fees needed to run and oversee the process; fees must be reasonable, accessible, and transparent. The process must have defined application requirements, public guidance, and review and approval timelines. Creating the process and charging fees are allowed, not required, and the department must issue necessary rules. The law also replaces prior restrictions on licensees receiving free fish from government sources.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Shane Jett
Republican • Senate
Cosponsors
Rick West
Republican • House
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 5/1/2025
THIRD READING
Yes: 76 • No: 0
House vote • 4/22/2025
DO PASS
Yes: 10 • No: 0
House vote • 4/8/2025
DO PASS
Yes: 3 • No: 0
Senate vote • 3/27/2025
THIRD READING
Yes: 40 • No: 4
Senate vote • 2/10/2025
Committee vote: Agriculture & Rural Affairs
Yes: 9 • No: 2
Bill Text
Enrolled (final version)
5/5/2025
Floor (House)
4/23/2025
House Committee Report
4/22/2025
House Policy Committee Report
4/8/2025
Engrossed
3/31/2025
Floor (Senate)
2/11/2025
Senate Committee Report
2/10/2025
Introduced
1/15/2025
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