Mississippi Administrative Code

A. Regulations for Divide Section Wildlife Management Area in Tishomingo and Prentiss Counties. SPECIES SEASON COMMENTS DEER For deer hunting regulations see LEGAL BUCKS, DOG RESTRICTIONS, DEER DATA COLLECTION, YOUTH/HANDICAP DEER HUNTING, and LEGAL WEAPONS in SPECIAL INSTRUCTION…

Public Notice 1942 is hereby amended. BE IT KNOWN, that the State Game and Fish Commission, at a special meeting held in Pascagou1a, Mississippi, on August 27, 1977, made known its intentions under authority of Section 49-1-29 to close the Askew Floodwater Retention Area in Tunic…

Note: Miss. Code Ann. § 49-7-35, provides, "Whenever the time fixed by statute for the beginning of a game season shall fall on a Sunday, the season shall begin on the preceding Saturday." A. 2024 - 2025 WHITE-TAILED DEER HUNTING SEASONS AND BAG LIMITS:1. Velvet Season (effective…

A. For the purposes of MISS. CODE ANN. § 49-7-31.1(1), a "fully enclosed blind," is defined as:1. Any elevated stand with three or more connected sides that hides or conceals the hunter from casual observation; or 2. Any ground level shooting house or blind having four connected …

A. To properly manage wildlife in Mississippi, MDWFP Biologists recommend a complete wildlife management program which includes: 1. Habitat management practices to improve overall habitat conditions; 2. Supplemental plantings that provide year-round forage; 3. Education of hunter…

A. The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks, in a partnership with any conservation organization or non-profit organization, may hold an annual deer hunt for disabled youths outside the open season on deer. B. Youths eligible to participate in this special hun…

Public Notice W 3806 is hereby amended. A. Persons or organizations may be issued an Administrative Possession Permit for the purpose of rehabilitating native wildlife for eventual release back into the wild. B. As specifically pertains to white-tailed deer, possession of and reh…

A. For the purpose of this rule, cervids include any member of the Cervidae family, including white-tailed deer, elk, moose, red deer, sika deer, fallow deer, mule deer and caribou. B. It is unlawful to: 1. Import, transport, or possess any portion of a cervid carcass originating…

A. For the purpose of this rule, cervids include any member of the Cervidae family, including white-tailed deer, elk, moose, red deer, sika deer, fallow deer, mule deer and caribou. B. Chronic Wasting Disease scientific research indicates infection prions are found in bodily flui…

A. Spring Season: March 15 - May 1, unless March 15 falls on a Sunday and the season shall be March 14 - May 1. B. Non-Resident Draw Hunt1. All non-residents must be drawn to hunt open public lands prior to April 1. 2. Open public lands include National Forests, National Wildlife…

Public Notice 3420 is hereby amended. BE IT ORDERED, that the hunting of turkeys during the spring gobbler season shall be restricted to shotguns with shot no larger than number two (2), and compound, recurve, and long bows. Provided, however, that any quadriplegic may hunt turke…

Public Notice 2382 is hereby amended. A. No person, at any time, shall take, catch, kill or attempt to take, catch, or kill any wild turkey by means, aid or use, directly or indirectly, of any bait such as shelled, shucked or un-shucked corn or of wheat or other grain, or any oth…

A. The MDWFP harvest reporting system shall be known as "Game Check" to maintain uniform terminology across states. B. When hunting spring turkey, all hunters, regardless of license exemption status, shall obtain a valid turkey harvest tag issued by the MDWFP. This requirement wi…

A. To properly manage wildlife in Mississippi, MDWFP Biologists recommend a complete wildlife management program which includes:1. Habitat management practices to improve overall habitat conditions; 2. Supplemental plantings that provide year-round forage; 3. Education of hunters…

A. FROG:1. Season: April 1 - September 30 2. Bag Limit: Only 25 may be taken in any one night. A valid hunting or fishing license is required. B. RACCOON: 1. Season: July 1 - September 30 2. Bag Limit: 1 per party per night C. OPOSSUM, RACCOON, AND BOBCAT: 1. First Season: Octobe…

Public Notice 3675 is hereby amended. A. Be it ordered, as prescribed by Federal Migratory Bird Regulations, that there be an open season for hunting crows with firearms, bow and arrow and falconry as follows: 1. Open Season: From the first Saturday in November through the last d…

Public Notice W 3759 is hereby amended. A. Hunting is allowed on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays after 12:00 PM, during the first two dove seasons only. B. Hunters must hunt from a designated stand on the first two hunting days of the first dove season. A hunter's permit numbe…

Public Notice 3073 is hereby amended. A. Be it ordered that the following described lands in Lafayette County, Mississippi shall be closed from and after September 1, 1990, to all waterfowl hunting, trespassing and to hunting of all game unless specifically authorized by order of…

Public Notice 3092.001 is hereby amended. A. The following rules and regulations relative to the Springdale Wildlife Management Area are adopted. B. Be it ordered that the Code of Federal Regulations 327 that applies to the area with specific restrictions under the posted restric…

Public Notice 3418 is hereby amended. A. The following boundary description and regulations shall apply to the Grenada Reservoir Waterfowl Refuge located in Calhoun County, Mississippi. B. Grenada Reservoir Waterfowl Refuge lands are those encompassed by the following description…

Public Notice W1 3716 is hereby amended. A. Participants in the Arkabutla Lake Physically Challenged Deer Hunt may use modern firearms, as per Corps of Engineers regulations, for deer hunting during the month of December. B. Legal bucks for this special hunt are defined as any de…

A. Feeding or enticement of alligators. 1. No person shall intentionally feed or entice with feed any wild American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis). However, this shall not apply to: a. Those persons feeding alligators maintained in protected captivity for educational, sci…

A. An American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) hunting season, hereby referred to as the "Private Lands Alligator Hunting Season," will be opened on private lands, according to restrictions below: B. Location: Private lands only of Adams, Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Coahoma,…

A. An American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) hunting season will be opened in the public waterways of the State of Mississippi and is hereby referred to as the following with described restrictions. 1. Legal public water for public water alligator hunting shall be any "p…

A. An American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) hunting season will be opened in portions of Pelahatchie Bay on the Ross Barnett Reservoir in the State of Mississippi and is hereby referred to as the following with described restrictions. 1. SEASON DATES: As described below…

A. Lure. 1. Lure is allowed for trapping furbearers, beaver, nutria, coyote, and fox, provided that no more than two and one-half (2.5) cubic inches of such lure may be placed or located within twenty (20) feet of any trap. 2. All lure within twenty (20) feet of any trap must be …

A. Miss. Code Ann. § 49-7-1, as amended, classifies nutria, beaver, fox, skunks, coyotes and wild hogs, as "nuisance" animals. Pursuant to the authority stated therein, the Commission issues this regulation for the taking of nuisance animals: B. Nuisance animals may be hunted, tr…

Public Notice W2 3169 is hereby amended. A. Be it ordered that landowners receiving assistance with beaver control through the Mississippi Beaver Control Assistance Program (BCAP) shall be charged fees according to the following schedule: B. SERVICES WITHOUT COST 1. Initial Asses…

Public Notice 3510.001 is hereby amended. A. Fox/Coyote Enclosures 1. Permit applications for enclosures shall be on a form prescribed by the MDWFP and shall contain the following information:a. Owner of enclosure b. Size of enclosure (in acres) c. Location of enclosure 2. Enclos…

A. Possession of White-tailed Deer. 1. No person may possess a live white-tailed deer in Mississippi unless that person possesses a valid permit issued by the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks (MDWFP). 2. No person may sell a live white-tailed deer pursuant…

A. INTRODUCTION 1. a. It is unlawful for any person to import, export, transport, receive, transfer, sell, purchase, acquire or possess by intrastate, interstate or foreign commerce, any wild animal classified as inherently dangerous by law or regulation unless that person holds …

A. Game and furbearing animals are defined as the following: white-tailed deer, black bear, gray squirrel, fox squirrel, cottontail rabbit, swamp rabbit, raccoon, opossum, bobcat, river otter, muskrat, mink, and weasel. B. Possession of live game and furbearing animals is prohibi…

A. Enclosures and/or permitted facilities preventing the free ingress and egress of wild animals, may, by fully complying with the terms, conditions, and provisions of this rule, cease operations as a wildlife enclosure, without being in violation of 40 Miss. Admin. Code, Part 2,…

A. Administrative Quarantine. 1. An enclosure suspected of violating any applicable law, rule, or regulation regarding enclosures that prevent the free ingress and egress of white-tailed deer, may be placed under administrative quarantine until any investigation is concluded. 2. …

Public Notice F2 1405 is hereby amended. A. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to transport into the state, offer for sale or have in their possession within the state live forms of the following fishes: Scientific names, Genus names or Family name Common Names Claria…

Public Notice 1664 is hereby amended. BE IT ORDERED effective this date that the discharging of firearms of any type and for any purpose on the public access areas, commonly called boat launching ramps, owned or leased by the Commission, on the lakes and streams of Mississippi, i…

A. The following rules and regulations relative to sport fishing are adopted: 1. Each person with a valid sport fishing license or those exempt under 49-7-5 may fish no more than 100 single hooks (in aggregate) among the following devices as described: a. Sport fishing trotlines,…

A. The following rules and regulations relative to sport fishing are adopted: 1. Statewide creel limits (per person, per day) on game and sport fish are as follows: Species Creel Per Day Black Bass (combined largemouth, spotted and smallmouth bass) 10 Sauger 10 Walleye 3 Striped …

Public Notice F2 3800 is hereby amended. A. The following regulation(s) on the North Mississippi Fish Hatchery Visitor-Education Center fees are hereby adopted. General Entrance Permits Rate Adult $2.50 Ages 18-60 Senior $2.00 Ages 60 and over Children $2.00 Ages 3-18 Children Fr…

A. The following regulations are adopted for all State Fishing Lakes owned and/or managed by the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks. These lakes are: Tippah County Lake, Tippah County; Lake Lamar Bruce, Lee County; Lake Monroe, Monroe County; Lake Tom Bailey, Lauderdale…

A. Only rod and reel or line and pole gear may be used in the following public waters which are open to fishing. Unless otherwise stated, all persons possessing a valid fishing license or who are legally exempt from the license requirements may fish these waters. Boating, swimmin…

A. The following rules, regulations and required licenses relative to freshwater commercial fishing, commercial fishing equipment tags, seines, nets and traps and wholesale minnow dealers are hereby adopted for all residents and non-residents for public waters identified in MISS.…

Notes 40 Miss. Code. R. 3-3.2 MISS. CODE ANN. §§ 49-1-29, 49-4-4, and 49-7-90. Revised August 2014. Revised August 2015; Amended 10/22/2015 Revised August 2016. Amended 11/2/2016 Revised August 2017 Amended 10/22/2017 Revised August 2018. Amended 10/25/2018 Repealed 12/1/2019…

Public Notice 3361 is hereby amended. A. For the purpose of this Rule, "Mussel" means and embraces the pearly freshwater mussel, clam or naiad and the shell thereof. B. Be it ordered that all waters in the State of Mississippi are closed to commercial harvest of mussels. Notes 40…

Notes 40 Miss. Code. R. 3-3.4 MISS. CODE ANN. §§ 49-1-29, 49-4-4, and 49-7-90. Revised September 2014. Revised August 2015; Amended 10/22/2015 Revised August 2016. Amended 11/2/2016 Revised August 2017 Amended 10/22/2017 Revised August 2018. Amended 10/25/2018 Repealed 12/1/2019…

Notes 40 Miss. Code. R. 3-3.5 MISS. CODE ANN. §§ 49-1-29, 49-4-4, and 49-7-90. Revised August 2014. Revised August 2015; Amended 10/22/2015 Revised August 2016. Amended 11/2/2016 Revised August 2017 Amended 10/22/2017 Revised August 2018. Amended 10/25/2018 Repealed 12/1/2019…

Pursuant to Miss. Code Ann. § 49-4-39, the following terms, when used in these rules, shall have the following meanings: A. "Boat" means a vessel used by a guide or outfitter for taking paying customers on recreational freshwater fishing excursions. B. "Guide" means a person who …