Marine Resources Division

(1)(a) Unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, in this regulation, the term “public access area” shall include any state-owned, leased, and/or operated, boat launching and/or landing access area, parking lot, ramp, pier (unless Gulf State Park Pier), and any real or perso…

(1) Red Drum and Spotted Sea Trout. (a) No person may possess or transport for the purpose of sale a red drum or spotted sea trout. (b) No person may sell or offer for sale a red drum or spotted sea trout. (c) No person may purchase or offer to purchase for resale a red drum or s…

Reserved Notes Ala. Admin. Code r. 220-3-.13

Reserved Notes Ala. Admin. Code r. 220-3-.14

(1) Seasons and Times. Certain public water bottoms of Alabama not closed by the Department of Public Health, may be opened for the taking of oysters but only from 7:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Monday through Friday of each week and only from October 1 through April 30 of the following …

Reserved Notes Ala. Admin. Code r. 220-3-.16

Reserved Notes Ala. Admin. Code r. 220-3-.18

Reserved Notes Ala. Admin. Code r. 220-3-.19

Effective at Midnight on May 14, 1992, it shall be unlawful to take, harvest, or possess, for commercial purposes, Red Snapper, from the waters of the State of Alabama.

(1) Oyster tags issued by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Marine Resources Division, to be placed on each sack of oysters harvested for commercial purposes (as provided by Section 9-12-67, Code of Ala. 1975) or noncommercial purposes shall be identified in a…

(1) To the extent provided herein, effective immediately, Alabama waters shall be open to the commercial taking of a Gulf Reef Fish species during such period of time that the federal waters (adjoining Alabama waters) are opened to the commercial harvest of that Gulf Reef Fish sp…

(a) Section 9-12-150, Code of Ala. 1975, provides for the regulation of artificial fishing reefs and related activities. (b) Vessels transporting permitted artificial reef material shall depart the dock and deploy said material only during the hours of one hour before sunrise to …

During such period of time that the federal waters (adjoining Alabama waters) are closed to the commercial harvest of King Mackerel, it shall be unlawful to take, harvest, or possess, for commercial purposes, King Mackerel, from the waters of the State of Alabama.

(1) Individuals fishing in the waters of the State of Alabama are limited to the following daily bag limits and possession limits for recreational and commercial purposes: Spotted seatrout6Red drum3 No person who is subject to the jurisdiction of the State of Alabama shall posses…

(1) No person, firm, or corporation shall take, catch, sell, transport, or possess blue crabs that measure less than five inches (5”) carapace width as measured from the tip of one lateral spine to tip of the opposite lateral spine. Provided, however, this limitation does not app…

(1) Except as otherwise provided by law or regulations, it shall be unlawful to use purse seines for the taking or attempting to take fishes of other than those of the families Clupeidae (menhaden and herrings) and Engraulidae (anchovies) in the territorial waters of this State; …

(1) It shall be unlawful to take or attempt to take, catch, or attempt to catch, possess, molest, injure, kill, feed, harass, or do any other activity, including any act of pursuit, torment, or interaction, that causes disruption of behavioral patterns or otherwise interferes wit…

There is hereby established a closed fishing season for the taking or harvesting of crabs by the use of crab traps in any waters in the Mobile Delta north of the line as provided by Rule 220-2-.42(1) of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, that line therein being…

(a) Section 9-12-115, Code of Ala. 1975, as amended by Section 4 of Act No. 95-287 (Regular Session, 1995), requires that each and every person, firm, or corporation holding a seafood dealer’s license issued by the commissioner of conservation and natural resources or his or her …

Effective November 13, 1996, there is hereby established a closed fishing season for the taking or attempting to take fish by the use of any gill net, trammel net, or other entangling net, in Old River (Baldwin County), south of a line beginning at the easternmost point of Ono Is…

(1) Season on Sharks for Commercial Purposes: During such period of time that the federal waters adjacent to Alabama waters are open to the commercial harvest of a shark species as defined by federal law or regulation, the Alabama waters of Mobile Bay, Bon Secour Bay, Mississippi…

(a) All oysters taken from the public oyster bottoms shall be culled and sacked by the time of public water bottom closure each day. Any unculled or unsacked oysters on board a boat at the time of public water bottom closure, shall be immediately replaced and scattered upon the r…

(1) Bait Fishery Defined; Fishery Restrictions: An experimental offshore bait purse seine fishery in Alabama’s territorial waters of the Gulf of Mexico for schooling, pelagic fish species (listed in paragraph (c) hereof) to be marketed exclusively as bait is herein authorized. It…

(1) A special oyster dredge season and sack limit is hereby established for persons licensed under Section 9-12-87, Code of Ala. 1975, and permitted under Rule 220-3-.02(5), in accordance with the following times, places, manners and means: (a) That area described as the “Mobile …

(1) During such period of time that the federal waters (During such period of time that the federal waters (adjoining Alabama waters) are open to the recreational harvest of a Gulf Reef Fish species, the recreational harvest of that Gulf Reef Fish species shall also be open in Al…

Holders of net or seine permits issued pursuant to §9-12-113, Code of Ala. 1975, shall obtain at no cost a photo identification at the Marine Resources Division office at Dauphin Island. The photo identification shall be utilized by the Marine Resources Division for identificatio…

(1) During such period of time that all or any portion of the area in Mobile Bay north of a line beginning at the northern shore of East Fowl River running along the northern edge of the Fowl River Channel to Marker #2 in the Fowl River Channel, then southeasterly to Middle Bay L…

(1) In addition to the provisions of 220-2-.60, it shall be unlawful for any person to use an airboat on any of the public waters of this State subject to an ebb and flow of the tide of at least 2 inches, south of a line beginning at the Mississippi state line following the eastb…

(a) There is hereby established a one day closed fishing season for the taking or harvesting of crabs by the use of crab traps (recreational or commercial) in any inside waters of the State of Alabama under the jurisdiction of the Marine Resources Division within 500 yards of the…

(1) During such times that these and adjacent waters are closed to the recreational and commercial taking of shrimp, the following waters shall be open exclusively to the commercial and recreational taking of live saltwater bait:Beginning at a point on land at the southern entran…

(1) Effective 6:00 a.m., Saturday, June 30, 2001, the following waters, temporarily closed to commercial shrimping, shall be open to the taking of live saltwater bait by licensed live saltwater bait catchers only: (a) All waters in Mississippi Sound east of a line from Gulf Intra…

From January 1 through Labor Day of each year, there is hereby established a closed fishing season for the taking or attempting to take Florida pompano by the used of any gill net, entangling net, seine, or cast net, in the waters of Alabama under the jurisdiction of the Marine R…

(1) During such times that these and adjacent waters are closed to the recreational and commercial taking of shrimp, the following waters shall be open exclusively to the commercial and recreational taking of live saltwater bait: Beginning at Mullet Point Park ramp, herein define…

(1) Effective 6:00 a.m., Monday, September 23, 2002, the following waters, temporarily closed to commercial shrimping, shall be closed to the taking of live saltwater bait by licensed live saltwater bait catchers: All waters in Mississippi Sound north of a line beginning at the M…

(1) There is hereby established a closed fishing season/area in Little Lagoon to the taking or attempted taking of any saltwater fish, shrimp, or other seafood species, by the use of a commercial gill net, or by the use of a trawl that exceeds sixteen feet as measured across the …

Effective 12:01 a.m., June 1, 2003, the following waters shall be open exclusively to the commercial and recreational taking of live saltwater bait: Buchanan Bay, Confederate Pass, British Bay, Columbia Bay, Colony Bay (Colony Cove), Spanish Bay, Barcelona Bay “Live saltwater bai…

(1) A special oyster dredge season and sack limit is hereby established for persons licensed under Section 9-12-87, Code of Ala. 1975, and permitted under Rule 220-3-.02(5), in accordance with the following times, places, manners and means: (a) That area in Portersville Bay open …

(1) There is hereby established a closed season to the taking of oysters by any means, except such season shall be open to the taking of oysters by any legal means when opened to the use of a dredge in accordance with Rule 220-3-.68 and the permit issued under Rule 220-3-.02(5), …

(1) It shall be unlawful within three hundred feet of the shoreline, or on a public pier, or on a private pier where an unsafe condition is created, on or in the waters of Alabama under the jurisdiction of the Marine Resources Division as provided by Rule 220-2-.42, to fish for o…

(1) No person who, pursuant to state or federal law, is subject to the jurisdiction of the State of Alabama, shall violate any federal law, rule or regulation, including but not limited to those rules and regulations enacted pursuant to the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation A…

(1) All oysters taken from the public reefs of Alabama under a commercial oyster license shall be sold to a Certified Shellfish Dealer. The oyster harvester shall declare at the Oyster Management Station each day which Certified Shellfish Dealer to whom he shall sell his shellsto…