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Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin - Tribal Law

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Lac Courte Oreilles Tribal Code of Law.

CSV.2.9.220 Harvest of Spawn and Introduction of Fish Regulated

(a) No member shall stock, introduce, place, transfer or otherwise release any fish or any spawn of any fish into any body of water, except for returning or releasing a fish into a body of water from which it came.

(b)(1) Except in accordance with the provisions of Section CSV.2.9.220(b)(2), no member shall harvest the spawn of any fish unless the carcass of the fish is legally harvested pursuant to this ordinance.

(2)(A) The tribal conservation department may issue a permit to a member for harvesting only the spawn of any fish without harvesting the carcass of the fish upon such terms and conditions as it deems necessary or appropriate.

(B) No member shall fail to comply with the terms and conditions of any permit issued pursuant to this section.

(c) Nothing in this section shall preclude the Tribe, tribal conservation department or the Commission's Biological Services Division, or their employees or agents, from stocking fish in any body of water pursuant to a management plan.