Wolf Fish legality

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Greg31

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Sep 15, 2009
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Just wondering if anyone knows if Red wolf fish are legal in North Carolina. I have one but was told they are illegal.
 
http://www.ncwildlife.org/Regs/documents/Misc_Prohibitions.pdf

Possession of Certain Fishes
 It is unlawful to transport, purchase, possess or sell any live individuals
of piranha, “walking catfish” (Clarias batrachus), snakehead
fish (from the Family Channidae, formerly Ophiocephalidae),
white amur or “grass carp” (Ctenopharyngodon idella), black carp
(Mylopharyngodon piceus), swamp eel (Monopterus albus), red
shiner (Cyprinella lutrensis), rudd (Scardinius erythropthalomus),
round goby (Neogobius melanostomus), tubenose goby (Proterorhinus
marmoratus), ruffe (Gymnocephalus cernuus), Japanese
mystery snail (Cipangopaludina japonica), Chinese mystery
snail (Cipantopaludina chinensis malleata), red-rim melania
(Melanoides tuberculatus), virile crayfish (Orconectes (Gremicambarus)
virilis), or rusty crayfish (Orconectes (Procericambarus) rusticus),
or zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) or to stock any of them
in the public or private waters of North Carolina, except that
certified triploid grass carp may be bought, possessed and
stocked with a permit from theWildlife Resources Commission.
 It is unlawful to take or possess any state or federally designated
endangered, threatened, or species of special concern, including
sturgeon from the inland waters of North Carolina.
 It is unlawful to possess eels less than six inches in length.
 It is unlawful to possess, transport or release live alewife or
blueback herring in the Little Tennessee River and the Catawba
River, upstream of Lake Rhodhiss, and their tributaries and
impoundments.
 
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