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Title: undersized mussels
Post by: jigglestick on April 04/12/06, 10:28:06 PM

Minnesota Statutes 2005, Table of Chapters

Table of contents for Chapter 97C


     97C.711 Undersized mussels.

    A person must return undersized mussels to the water
 without injury.

    HIST: 1986 c 386 art 3 s 59; 1993 c 269 s 31

Copyright 2005 by the Office of Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota.

you hear that ladies...without injury!!

Title: Re: undersized mussels
Post by: Desperado on April 04/13/06, 01:39:40 PM

JS
some "unfortunate incident" happen recently ?

Title: Re: undersized mussels
Post by: jigglestick on April 04/13/06, 10:48:03 PM

no, thank God, Desparado!
 just ran across this tidbit of helpful information and i thought i'd just take the opportunity to cover that base, before someone runs into trouble of a larger proportion ;)

Title: Re: undersized mussels
Post by: Joe on April 04/14/06, 09:52:09 AM

What would cause undersized mussels?

Title: Re: undersized mussels
Post by: jigglestick on April 04/14/06, 10:39:58 AM

well, i would have to say a sudden drop in water temperature :o

Title: Re: undersized mussels
Post by: Joe on April 04/14/06, 12:04:15 PM

I thought that was frightened turtle syndrome. :D

Title: Re: undersized mussels
Post by: GRIZ on April 04/22/06, 08:31:24 PM

There are many different kinds of mussels in MN, 5 out of 6 are inedible (toxic believe me I tried). Out of the rest a couple might even be legal to harvest. I actually did read up on this once and got confused so decided it wasn't worth figuring it out.

You must know your mussels first.

Title: Re: undersized mussels
Post by: SoHawk on April 04/22/06, 09:10:43 PM

Griz, I bet you know your mussel well...  :o  ;D  How did the schmeldting go?