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                 Rules for fish caught outside Minnesota

By Matthew S. Miller, Minnesota DNR on Mar 19, 2017
 
Q: I fish in Canada, Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota. I have saved some fish from each place that I have fished. I label each package with the species, date and where I have caught each fish. We have friends over and have fish as the main course twice a month.

Since I have four separate licenses and the length requirements differ in all the places I fish, am I in violation of Minnesota laws if I have seven walleyes from last year that were taken in other states under their license privileges?

A: Good for you for traveling and fishing that much. The short answer is "no." As long as the fish were legally taken under the regulations of that other state (or Canada) and lawfully transported into Minnesota, an angler is entitled to possess up to the possession limit of fish from that state in which they were licensed. It is important that traveling anglers remember the requirements for packaging and labeling fish brought into Minnesota: