S.D. Admin. R. 41:09:04:04
Licensed resident wholesale and retail bait dealers may possess and use regular or bag seines not longer than fifty feet nor deeper than six feet.
All traps must have a rigid entrance no larger than one inch wide.
Trap throats exposed above the surface of the water must be blocked by a solid shield or mesh to prevent the entrapment of waterfowl. No seine, net, or trap, used for the commercial taking of bait, may contain flexible mesh larger than three-eighths inch square.
The department may issue a permit for the use of a seine, net, or trap, larger than specified, if the device is used to stock public waters with white suckers for rearing and harvest.
There are no mesh-size or size restrictions for traps, seines, dip nets, lift nets, or cast nets used to take bait for noncommercial use.
S.D. Admin. R. 41:09:04:04
General Authority: SDCL 41-2-18(1)(14)(21).
Law Implemented: SDCL 41-2-18(1)(14), 41-6-44, 41-6-45.