Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 9-11-140 (2026)
Use of Commercial Fishing Gear in Public Impounded Waters and Navigable Streams - When, Where, and How Permitted.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
Any person engaged in the taking, killing or capturing of commercial or nongame fish from the public impounded waters and navigable streams of the State of Alabama may use in such commercial fishing operations hoop and fyke nets, seines, gill nets, trammel nets, setlines, trotlines, snaglines and lawful fish traps. However, all such nets, setlines, trotlines, snaglines and fish traps shall conform to the rules and regulations promulgated by the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources covering the same, who shall designate when, where and how same shall be used.
(Acts 1953, No. 784, p. 1069, §1.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 1981–1991 · leading case: Ex Parte Carter, 395 So. 2d 65 (Ala. 1981).
Ex Parte Carter, 395 So. 2d 65 (Ala. 1981). “The legislature has given the Department express power to seize commercial fishing gear used in violation of the provisions of § 9-11-140, et seq., of the Alabama Code of 1975, to hold it for a reasonable time to be claimed by the owner and, in the event that it is not claimed,…”
Clopton v. State, 601 So. 2d 1087 (Ala. Crim. App. 1991). “At trial, the prosecutor made no allegation, contention, or showing that the Department of Conservation, in the exercise of the authority vested in it by virtue of § 9-11-140, had enacted a rule or regulation defining fresh and salt water in general or in connection with the…”
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