Ch. 29 Cross-reference
Cross-reference: See also NR Ch 1-, Wis. adm. code.
DEFINITIONS
29.001
29.001
Definitions. In this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise:
29.001(3)
(3) "Address" means a street name and number or post-office box number, the name of the city, village or town, the state and the zip code.
29.001(6)
(6) "Aircraft" means any contrivance invented, used or designed for navigation of or flight in the air.
29.001(12)
(12) "Approval" means any type of approval or authorization issued by the department under this chapter including any license, permit, certificate, card, stamp or tag unless the context requires a different meaning.
29.001(15)
(15) "Attending boat" means an open boat used to transport equipment, crew or catch of a licensed boat, provide assistance in the operation of fishing gear by the licensed boat or provide other assistance in the commercial fishing operations of a boat licensed under
s. 29.519.
29.001(16)
(16) "Boat" means any device capable of being used as a means of transportation on water.
29.001(17)
(17) "Bow," when used with reference to hunting, means a bow, drawn and held by and through the effort of the person releasing it, but does not include a crossbow.
29.001(18)
(18) "Carcass" means the dead body of any wild animal, including any part of the wild animal or the eggs of the wild animal.
29.001(19)
(19) "Cervid" means any species of deer or elk that is present in the wild and that is not a farm-raised deer.
29.001(19m)
(19m) "Crossbow" means any device using a bow that, once drawn, is held solely by means other than the effort of the person firing it.
29.001(20)
(20) "Deer" means white-tailed deer and does not include farm-raised deer.
29.001(21)
(21) "Documented boat" means a licensed commercial fishing boat with valid federal documentation under
s. 30.51 (2) (c) 2.
29.001(22)
(22) "Elk" means elk that is present in the wild and that does not have an ear tag or other mark identifying it as being raised on a farm.
29.001(25)
(25) "Farm-raised fish" means a fish that is kept on a fish farm for propagation purposes or reared on a fish farm and that has not been introduced, stocked or planted into waters outside a fish farm or that has not escaped from a fish farm.
29.001(26)
(26) "Fish farm" has the meaning given in
s. 95.001 (1) (aj), except that "fish farm" does not include a state or municipal fish hatchery or a private fishing preserve.
29.001(27)
(27) "Fishing" includes taking, capturing or killing fish, other than farm-raised fish, or attempting to take, capture or kill fish, other than farm-raised fish. When "fish" is used as a verb, it has the same meaning as "fishing".
29.001(28)
(28) "Food distribution service" means a program that provides food or serves meals directly to individuals with low incomes or to elderly individuals, or that collects and distributes food to persons who provide food or serve meals directly to these individuals.
29.001(29)
(29) "Freeze-out pond" means a natural, self-contained body of water in which freezing or anoxic conditions prevent the body of water from naturally sustaining a fish population at least twice every 5 years.
29.001(30)
(30) "Fur-bearing animals" includes otter, beaver, mink, muskrat, marten, fisher, skunk, raccoon, fox, weasel, opossum, badger, wolf, coyote, bobcat, cougar and lynx.
29.001(33)
(33) "Game" includes all varieties of wild mammals or birds.
29.001(36)
(36) "Game animals" includes deer, moose, elk, bear, rabbits, squirrels, fox and raccoon.
29.001(39)
(39) "Game birds" means birds that are in the wild and includes wild geese, brant, wild ducks, wild swan, rails, coots, gallinules, snipe, woodcock, plovers, sandpipers, ruffed grouse, prairie chicken, sharp-tailed grouse, pheasants, gray partridge, chukar partridge, bobwhite, quail, crows and wild turkey.
29.001(41)
(41) "Game fish" includes all varieties of fish except rough fish and minnows.
29.001(41m)
(41m) "Great Lakes fish" means lake trout, siscowet, whitefish, chubs, yellow perch, menominee, lake herring, smelt, alewife, and burbot.
29.001(42)
(42) "Hunt" or "hunting" includes shooting, shooting at, pursuing, taking, capturing or killing or attempting to capture or kill any wild animal.
29.001(45)
(45) "Inland waters" means all waters not classified as outlying waters, including the bays, bayous and sloughs of the Mississippi River bottoms.
29.001(51)
(51) "Licensed boat" means a boat, other than an attending boat, included under a commercial fishing license.
29.001(54)
(54) "Minnow" includes a sucker not listed as endangered or threatened under
s. 29.604 (3), central mudminnow, tadpole madtom, stonecat, banded killifish, blackstripe topminnow, brook silverside, brook stickleback, ninespine stickleback, trout-perch, darter, log perch, sculpin. "Minnow" includes any minnow family cyprinid that is not listed as endangered or threatened under
s. 29.604 (3) and that is not a goldfish, grass carp, common carp or rudd. "Minnow" does not include any sucker, darter, sculpin or minnow species that is designated as detrimental under
s. 29.424.
29.001(57)
(57) "Motor vehicle" means a self-propelled vehicle, including a combination of 2 or more vehicles or an articulated vehicle. "Motor vehicle" includes a snowmobile or an all-terrain vehicle. "Motor vehicle" does not include an aircraft, a vehicle operated exclusively on rails, or an electric personal assistive mobility device.
29.001(60)
(60) "Nongame species" means any species of wild animal that is living in the wild and that is not classified as a game fish, game animal, game bird or fur-bearing animal.
29.001(63)
(63) "Outlying waters" means Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Green Bay, Sturgeon Bay, Sawyer's Harbor and the Fox River from its mouth up to the dam at De Pere.
29.001(64)
(64) "Preexisting fish rearing facility" means a body of water that is a fish farm or part of a fish farm and that is not a self-contained body of water but that was licensed as a private fish hatchery, or as part of a private fish hatchery, under s.
29.52, 1995 stats., on January 1, 1998 and that has been continuously used to rear fish since that date.
29.001(66)
(66) "Registered boat" means a boat having a valid certificate of number issued under
s. 30.51.
29.001(69)
(69) "Resident" means a person who has maintained his or her place of permanent abode in this state for a period of 30 days immediately preceding his or her application for an approval. Domiciliary intent is required to establish that a person is maintaining his or her place of permanent abode in this state. Mere ownership of property is not sufficient to establish domiciliary intent. Evidence of domiciliary intent includes, without limitation, the location where the person votes, pays personal income taxes or obtains a driver's license.
29.001(72)
(72) "Resident senior citizen" means a resident who has attained the age of 65 years.
29.001(74)
(74) "Rough fish" includes suckers, not listed as endangered or threatened under
s. 29.604 (3), common carp, asian carp, goldfish, freshwater drum, burbot, bowfin, garfish, sea lamprey, alewife, gizzard shad, rainbow smelt and mooneye.
29.001(75)
(75) "Self-contained body of water" means a body of water that has no inlet from or outlet to a natural body of water, except that it may have pipes or similar conduits to put in or withdraw water that are equipped with barriers that prevent the passage of fish between the body of water and the other waters of the state.
29.001(76)
(76) "Self-contained fish rearing facility" means any of the following:
29.001(76)(a)
(a) An artificial, self-contained body of water that is a fish farm or part of a fish farm.
29.001(81)
(81) "Sturgeon Bay" means that body of water lying south and east of a line commencing at the most northerly point of section 23, township 28 north, range 25 east, and running in a northeasterly direction to the water's edge on north line of section 13, same township and range.
29.001(84)
(84) "Trapping" includes the taking, or the attempting to take, of any wild animal by means of setting or operating any device that is designed or made to close upon, hold fast, or otherwise capture a wild animal. When "trap" is used as a verb, it has the same meaning as "trapping".
29.001(87)
(87) "Vehicle" means any device for moving persons or property or pulling implements from one place to another on land or rails or in the air.
29.001(90)
(90) "Wild animal" means any mammal, bird, fish, or other creature of a wild nature endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion.
GENERAL FISH AND GAME REGULATION
29.011
29.011
Title to wild animals. 29.011(1)
(1) The legal title to, and the custody and protection of, all wild animals within this state is vested in the state for the purposes of regulating the enjoyment, use, disposition, and conservation of these wild animals.
29.011(2)
(2) The legal title to a wild animal or carcass, taken or reduced to possession in violation of this chapter, remains in the state. The title to a wild animal or carcass, lawfully acquired, is subject to the condition that upon the violation of this chapter relating to the possession, use, giving, sale, barter or transportation of a wild animal or carcass by the owner, the ownership shall revert, as a result of the violation, to the state.
29.011(3)
(3) This section does not apply to farm-raised deer, farm-raised game birds, farm-raised fish, or wild animals that are subject to regulation under
ch. 169.
29.011 History
History: 1997 a. 248 s.
87;
2001 a. 56.
29.014
29.014
Rule-making for this chapter. 29.014(1)
(1) The department shall establish and maintain open and closed seasons for fish and game and any bag limits, size limits, rest days and conditions governing the taking of fish and game that will conserve the fish and game supply and ensure the citizens of this state continued opportunities for good fishing, hunting and trapping.
29.014(1m)(a)(a) If the department establishes an open season for hunting deer, elk, small game, wild turkey, or bear with a firearm, the season shall also be open for hunting that animal with a crossbow and a bow and arrow.
29.014(1m)(b)
(b) If the department establishes an open season for hunting deer, elk, small game, wild turkey, or bear with a bow and arrow but not with a firearm, the department may not open that season for hunting with a crossbow except by a person who has attained the age of 65 or by a person who is authorized to hunt with a crossbow by a permit issued under
s. 29.171 (4) (a) or
29.193 (2).
29.014(2)(b)(b) All of the rules promulgated under this chapter are prima facie reasonable and lawful until found to be otherwise in a final determination by a court.
29.014(2)(c)
(c) Any reference to this chapter includes any rules promulgated under this chapter and any reference to any provision of this chapter includes any rules promulgated under that provision.
29.014(3)
(3) Any rule of the department is subject to review in the manner provided in
ch. 227, except that if the rule affects only the county in which the appellant resides, the appeal shall be to the circuit court of that county.
29.014(4)
(4) No person may challenge the validity of a rule promulgated under this chapter in any prosecution of that person for a violation of this chapter or rules promulgated under this chapter unless the person has previously brought a separate action under
s. 227.40 seeking a declaratory judgment on the validity of the rule.
29.014 History
History: 1997 a. 248 ss.
77 to
79,
383,
397,
399;
2011 a. 252.
29.014 Cross-reference
Cross-reference: See also chs.
NR 10 and
11, Wis. adm. code.
29.014 Annotation
The DNR has express authority under sub. (1) to adopt a rule allowing an open hunting season for mourning doves. The legislature has granted broad authority to the DNR to set open and closed seasons for game under sub. (1). Mourning doves fall within the definition of game applicable to this section, although the doves also fall within the definition of nongame species applicable to s. 29.039. Wisconsin Citizens Concerned for Cranes and Doves v. DNR,
2004 WI 40,
270 Wis. 2d 318,
677 N.W.2d 612,
02-1166.
29.016
29.016
Department authority; deer hunting seasons and license restrictions. 29.016(1)
(1) The department may not do any of the following:
29.016(1)(a)
(a) Require a person who holds a license that authorizes the hunting of deer to take an antlerless deer before the person may take the person's first antlered deer under that license.
29.016(1)(b)
(b) Except as provided in
sub. (2), establish a fall open season for hunting deer with firearms that begins before the Saturday immediately preceding the 4th Thursday in November.
29.016(2)
(2) Subsection (1) (b) does not prohibit the department from promulgating a rule that establishes a fall open season for hunting deer with firearms that begins before the Saturday immediately preceding the 4th Thursday in November if any of the following applies:
29.016(2)(a)
(a) The department limits the open season to hunting deer by any of the following persons:
29.016(2)(b)
(b) The department establishes the fall open season because a fall open season is necessary to control the spread of chronic wasting disease or other disease in deer and if all of the following apply:
29.016(2)(b)1.
1. The rule authorizes the hunting of only antlerless deer.
29.016(2)(b)2.
2. The rule provides for a closing date for the fall open season that is on or before October 15.
29.016(2)(b)3.
3. The rule provides that the rule does not apply beginning 270 days after the effective date of the rule.
29.016 History
History: 2011 a. 50.
29.024
29.024
Approvals; forms; issuing agents. 29.024(1)
(1)
Approvals required. Except as specifically provided in this chapter,
ch. 169, or
s. 95.55 (5), no person may hunt or trap in this state, fish in the waters of this state or engage in any of the activities regulated under this chapter unless the appropriate approval is issued to the person. A person shall carry the required approval with him or her at all times while hunting, trapping, or fishing or engaged in regulated activities unless otherwise required by this chapter or unless otherwise authorized or required by the department. A person shall exhibit the approval to the department or its wardens on demand.
