North Dakota Code § 20.1-06-05

Removing undesirable fish
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The director, any person authorized by the director, or anyone contracting with the director, 
may kill or take fish from waters of this state in any manner prescribed by the director when in 
the director's judgment it is in the best interest of public fishing. All such fish must be disposed 
of at the director's discretion. Money derived from the disposal must be deposited in the state 
treasury and credited to the game and fish fund. All money received and expended must be 
itemized, and written records thereof must be kept in the director's office. Any person desiring to 
contract with the director to take such fish, as determined by the director, from the waters of this 
state, by means of not more than five hoop -nets or traps, not more than five setlines of ten 
hooks, or not more than one hundred feet [30.48 meters] of seine, must be awarded the 
contract upon payment of the appropriate fee. These contracts may not specify the disposition 
of the fish.

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