(515 ILCS 5/25-5) (from Ch. 56, par. 25-5)
Sec. 25-5.
Aquatic life preserves; regulation of devices.
All
waters in the
State including boundary waters under jurisdiction of the State shall be
aquatic life preserves.
Sport fishing devices, except as
provided in this
Code and its administrative rules, are the only lawful means of taking
aquatic life.
The Department of Natural Resources, however, has the
authority through
administrative rule to prohibit all sport fishing or certain sport
fishing devices in designated waters and also has the authority through
administrative rule to allow commercial fishing in designated waters by
regulating commercial fishing devices used in the interest of the total
management of the fishery resource.
(Source: P.A. 89-66, eff. 1-1-96; 89-445, eff. 2-7-96.)
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