2017-2018 Texas Commercial Fishing Guide
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Bait Dealer – Place of Business/Motor Vehicle
(Type 516) ..................................................$38
Required for any person operating a place
of business and buying, for the purpose of
sale from a motor vehicle, minnows, fish,
shrimp in non-coastal counties or other
aquatic products for bait.
Bait-Shrimp Dealer – Place of Business/
Building (coastal counties)
(Type 335) ............................................... $215
Required for any person who operates an
established place of business engaged in selling shrimp for fish bait. Minnows, nongame
fish or other aquatic products may also be
sold for fish bait under this license. Only the
place of business/building bait dealer’s license
is required for grocery stores which do not
unload or purchase shrimp directly from
commercial bait-shrimp boats.
OTHER BUSINESS LICENSES
AND PERMITS
“Place of business” means a permanent
structure on land or a motor vehicle where
aquatic products or orders for aquatic products are received or where aquatic products
are sold or purchased, but does not include a
boat or any type of floating device, a public
cold-storage vault, the portion of a structure
that is used as a residence, or a vehicle from
which no orders are taken or no shipments
or deliveries are made other than to the
place of business of a licensee in this state.
Aquatic products lawfully taken from the
waters of another state may be sold within
this state by licensed dealers without regard
to size limitations imposed on such products
taken within this state. A record of the source
and disposition of such undersized or oversized products shall be maintained by the
dealer for as long as the undersized or oversized products are retained and for at least
30 days thereafter.
All fish dealers who purchase aquatic
product(s) from anyone except other dealers,
and all fish dealers who harvest aquatic
product(s) themselves are required to report
these landings under the Trip Ticket Program.
(See Page 19 — COMMERCIAL HARVEST
REPORTS.)
*Wholesale Fish Dealer
(each place of business except trucks)
(Type 314) .............................................. $825
*Wholesale Fish Truck Dealer
(for each truck used as a place of business)
(Type 315) ............................................... $590
Required for any person who operates a
place of business for the purpose of selling,
offering for sale, canning, preserving, processing, or handling for shipments or sale aquatic
products to retail or wholesale fish dealers,
hotels, restaurants, cafes, or consumers.
*Note: HB 2470 of the 78th Legislature
mandated a 10% surcharge on fees for these
licenses. The funds generated by these
increases will be dedicated to a shrimp marketing and promotion program administered
by the Texas Department of Agriculture.
*Retail Fish Dealer
(each place of business except trucks)
(Type 302) .......................................... $92.40
*Retail Fish Truck Dealer
(each truck used as a place of business)
(Type 316) ........................................... $171.60
Required for any person who operates a
place of business and sells aquatic products
to consumers.
*Note: HB 2470 of the 78th Legislature
mandated a 10% surcharge on fees for these
licenses. The funds generated by these
increases will be dedicated to a shrimp marketing and promotion program administered
by the Texas Department of Agriculture.
Menhaden Fish Plant (Type 326) .......... $180
Required for any person who operates, at
a fixed location on land, any installation where
fish and fish by-products are processed by
pressure, heat or chemical means into fish
oil, fish solubles, fish scraps or other products.
Texas Finfish Import License
(Type 380) .................................................$95
Required of any person in this state receiving bass of the genus Micropterus, blue marlin,
crappie, flathead catfish, goliath grouper (formerly called jewfish), longbill spearfish, muskellunge, northern pike, red drum, sailfish, sauger,
snook, spotted seatrout, striped bass, tarpon,
walleye, white bass, white marlin, yellow bass
or hybrids of any of these fish directly from
another state or country; or importing, transporting, or selling these fishes in this state.
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Bait Dealer – Place of Business/Motor Vehicle
(Type 516) ..................................................$38
Required for any person operating a place
of business and buying, for the purpose of
sale from a motor vehicle, minnows, fish,
shrimp in non-coastal counties or other
aquatic products for bait.
Bait-Shrimp Dealer – Place of Business/
Building (coastal counties)
(Type 335) ............................................... $215
Required for any person who operates an
established place of business engaged in selling shrimp for fish bait. Minnows, nongame
fish or other aquatic products may also be
sold for fish bait under this license. Only the
place of business/building bait dealer’s license
is required for grocery stores which do not
unload or purchase shrimp directly from
commercial bait-shrimp boats.
OTHER BUSINESS LICENSES
AND PERMITS
“Place of business” means a permanent
structure on land or a motor vehicle where
aquatic products or orders for aquatic products are received or where aquatic products
are sold or purchased, but does not include a
boat or any type of floating device, a public
cold-storage vault, the portion of a structure
that is used as a residence, or a vehicle from
which no orders are taken or no shipments
or deliveries are made other than to the
place of business of a licensee in this state.
Aquatic products lawfully taken from the
waters of another state may be sold within
this state by licensed dealers without regard
to size limitations imposed on such products
taken within this state. A record of the source
and disposition of such undersized or oversized products shall be maintained by the
dealer for as long as the undersized or oversized products are retained and for at least
30 days thereafter.
All fish dealers who purchase aquatic
product(s) from anyone except other dealers,
and all fish dealers who harvest aquatic
product(s) themselves are required to report
these landings under the Trip Ticket Program.
(See Page 19 — COMMERCIAL HARVEST
REPORTS.)
*Wholesale Fish Dealer
(each place of business except trucks)
(Type 314) .............................................. $825
*Wholesale Fish Truck Dealer
(for each truck used as a place of business)
(Type 315) ............................................... $590
Required for any person who operates a
place of business for the purpose of selling,
offering for sale, canning, preserving, processing, or handling for shipments or sale aquatic
products to retail or wholesale fish dealers,
hotels, restaurants, cafes, or consumers.
*Note: HB 2470 of the 78th Legislature
mandated a 10% surcharge on fees for these
licenses. The funds generated by these
increases will be dedicated to a shrimp marketing and promotion program administered
by the Texas Department of Agriculture.
*Retail Fish Dealer
(each place of business except trucks)
(Type 302) .......................................... $92.40
*Retail Fish Truck Dealer
(each truck used as a place of business)
(Type 316) ........................................... $171.60
Required for any person who operates a
place of business and sells aquatic products
to consumers.
*Note: HB 2470 of the 78th Legislature
mandated a 10% surcharge on fees for these
licenses. The funds generated by these
increases will be dedicated to a shrimp marketing and promotion program administered
by the Texas Department of Agriculture.
Menhaden Fish Plant (Type 326) .......... $180
Required for any person who operates, at
a fixed location on land, any installation where
fish and fish by-products are processed by
pressure, heat or chemical means into fish
oil, fish solubles, fish scraps or other products.
Texas Finfish Import License
(Type 380) .................................................$95
Required of any person in this state receiving bass of the genus Micropterus, blue marlin,
crappie, flathead catfish, goliath grouper (formerly called jewfish), longbill spearfish, muskellunge, northern pike, red drum, sailfish, sauger,
snook, spotted seatrout, striped bass, tarpon,
walleye, white bass, white marlin, yellow bass
or hybrids of any of these fish directly from
another state or country; or importing, transporting, or selling these fishes in this state.
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