LAC 76:VII.114. Marking System for Passive Nets and Traps

A. Each gill net or trammel net shall be marked with a waterproof tag attached to the corkline at each end of the net, no more than three feet from the edge of the webbing or on an attached buoy. Each hoop net, slat trap, wire net, recreational crawfish trap, can, barrel, and bream trap shall be marked with a waterproof tag attached directly to the device or on an attached buoy. Said tags shall be supplied by the fisher and shall be completely waterproof. Each tag or buoy shall have the fisher's appropriate commercial or recreational fisher's license number (not the net license number) etched, stamped, or printed or written in indelible ink thereon in the English language, so as to be clearly legible.