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OutdoorNebraska.org | 9 WHO NEEDS A FISHING PERMIT? By buying a shing permit, anglers support Nebraska sheries management, habitat protection and restoration programs. A Nebraska permit is required of residents and nonresidents age 16 and over. Nonresidents under age 16 need not have a shing permit if they are accompanied by someone who has a Nebraska shing permit. A shing permit is required to take, or attempt to take, sh, bullfrogs, snapping turtles, barred salamanders, or mussels by any legal method. An angler must carry the shing permit while actively shing. Residents – The requirements to qualify as a Nebraska resident: • Reside in Nebraska continuously for 30 days or more before making application for a permit and intend to become a resident of Nebraska. • Residents attending school in another state, or stationed outside the state of Nebraska as part of a military assignment, who have maintained Nebraska as their state of legal residency. • Military personnel and full-time students stationed or attending school in Nebraska for a period of at least 30 days. NOTE: A new resident should be prepared to provide documentation of residency (driver's license, voter registration, etc.) to an ofcer when in possession of a resident permit. Nonresidents – A nonresident shing permit is required of all people who are not Nebraska residents, except those listed above and those under 16 years of age who are accompanied by someone with a Nebraska shing permit. WHEN FISHING PERMIT IS NOT REQUIRED Owners or their guests shing on a private water body are not required to have a shing permit if all of the following apply to that body of water: 1) is located entirely on privately owned land, 2) is entirely privately stocked, 3) does not connect by inow or outow with any other water outside such land, and 4) is not operated on a commercial basis for prot. In addition, any licensed commercial put-and-take operation is exempt from a shing permit. OTHER TYPES OF PERMITS Fee-Exempt Permits – These are available to resident veterans who: • are 50 percent disabled as a result of armed forces service • receive a pension from the Veterans Administration as a result of a total and permanent disability not incurred in the line of duty while in military service • obtained fee-exempt permits before Jan. 1, 2006 Veteran and Senior Permits – An annual sh/hunt permit is available for resident veterans age 64 and older and residents age 69 and older. Special Fishing Permit – This annual permit is for physically or developmentally disabled residents who cannot cast or retrieve unassisted. • This entitles the disabled person and one person assisting him or her to take, fish, catch, harvest, or possess any aquatic organism in compliance with state regulations. • If the person assisting does not have a valid fishing permit, they are restricted to one daily bag limit between the two anglers. • Disabled person is a person certified by a physician to have a permanent physical impairment or developmental disability that results in the inability to use shing equipment unassisted. GENERAL PERMIT INFORMATION

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