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OutdoorNebraska.org | 25 Below Dams – The seining of baitfish, listed amphibians or crayfish is unlawful for a distance of 200 yards below any dam or spillway. In these waters, baitfish, listed amphibians and crayfish may be taken by legal baitfish dip nets for personal use only. Restricted Species – It is unlawful to sell, transport or offer for sale as bait, any live carp, carpsucker, bullhead, buffalo, gar, quillback, gizzard shad or alewife. Live fish of those species may be used for bait only in the same waters from which they are legally taken. Dead carp, carpsucker, bullhead, buffalo, gar, quillback, gizzard shad or alewife may be transported for use as bait. Sport fish may be used for bait if: • they can be purchased from a bait dealer that have been acquired legally from a licensed aquaculturist or a nonresident fish dealer. The angler must keep a legible receipt or invoice from the dealer listing the date, seller's name and address, and number and size of each species sold. • they are captured using hook and line and used at the body of water from which they were captured. Anglers must follow both the length and bag limits for that body of water. Importation – It is unlawful for individuals to import live baitfish from out of state for use in inland waters. This does not include the Missouri River. It is unlawful to import or transport live carp, carpsucker, buffalo, quillback, gar, gizzard shad or alewife into the state for use as bait. Special permits are required for a person to import and sell bait or baitfish. GAME FISH Sport Fish: All Sunfish hybrids American Eel Black Crappie Blue Catfish Bluegill Brook Trout Brown Trout Burbot Channel Catfish Chinook Salmon Cutthroat Trout Flathead Catfish Goldeye Grass Pickerel Green Sunfish Largemouth Bass Muskellunge Northern Pike Orangespotted Sunfish Paddlefish Pumpkinseed Rainbow Trout Redear Sunfish Rock Bass Sauger Saugeye Shovelnose Sturgeon Skipjack Herring Smallmouth Bass Spotted Bass Striped Bass Striped Bass hybrid (Wiper) Tiger Muskellunge Tiger Trout Walleye White Bass White Crappie Panfish: All Sunfish hybrids Black Crappie Bluegill Green Sunfish Crappie hybrid Orangespotted Sunfish Pumpkinseed Redear Sunfish Rock Bass White Crappie Yellow Perch Sunfish: All Sunfish hybrids Bluegill Green Sunfish Orangespotted Sunfish Pumpkinseed Redear sunfish Commercial Fish: Black Bullhead Freshwater Drum Yellow Perch Baitfish: Alewife Bigmouth Shiner Brassy Minnow Creek Chub Devil Crayfish* Emerald Shiner Fathead Minnow Gizzard Shad Golden Shiner Goldfish Longnose Dace Northern Crayfish* Papershell Crayfish* Plains Killifish Red Shiner Ringed Crayfish* River Shiner Sand Shiner Stoneroller Suckermouth Minnow Barred Salamander* White Sucker * covered under baitfish regulations THREATENED AND ENDANGERED SPECIES Illegal to possess: Finscale Dace Lake Sturgeon Northern Redbelly Dace Pallid Sturgeon Pearl Dace Sturgeon Chub Topeka Shiner Blacknose Shiner NONGAME FISH Includes all species not on any of the above lists. Categories of Fish Species

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