Mississippi River boundary clarified for fishing rules

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10/11/2006

LITTLE ROCK – Among the new Arkansas fishing regulations going into effect Jan. 1 is a clarification of the Mississippi River boundary in southeast Arkansas.

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission took the action to use a visible landmark in place of the sometimes confusing “main levees of the Mississippi River.”

The new designation for the boundary follows the Mississippi River levee to the railroad at Yancopin, crosses the Arkansas River at the Yancopin Bridge, east along the railroad to the Benzal Bridge over the White River, then follows the railroad to Snow Lake and then back to the Mississippi River levee. This is in Desha and Arkansas counties, and in the area the Mississippi River and Arkansas River levees merge. The railroad was abandoned years ago, but there is still a bridge across the lower Arkansas River.

Some Arkansas fishing regulations for crappie, white, striped and hybrid bass as well as catfish specify “between the main levees of the Mississippi River.”

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