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Need your help with this question. Are reds and trout game fish. I just googled saltwater game fish in Louisiana and got a blake. If they are game fish don't think you could sell them.
Not talking about Federal law only state law. A place to find this in LWLF would be what I am looking for.

Copy & Paste the following link. Start on page 25. It states simply that red drum are prohibited from commercial harvest & has restrictions and laws for trout.

http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/publication/31745-commercial-fishing-regulations/commercial_fishing_2011.pdf

I know this what I am looking for is somehting that says they are a game fish. If you go under freshwater they state that Bass and other fish are game fish. If a fish is a game fish then there are rules like you can't sell a game fish this is where I am coming from. Again thanks put looking for some in writing that RED fish and trout are a game fish. Could be wrong but I think the class called game fish covers a lot of rules.

Yeah I see what you are saying now. You can probably call the LDWF and they can tell you where to find it in writing.

On page 25 under the section 'Other Species Prohibited Commercially' it states that red drum, along with many billfish species, are designated gamefish. That is about the closest thing I have found to what you are looking for. But I do know what you are talking about with the specific 'protected' gamefish and the rules associated with them I just don't know where to find that info.

I would say trout are not a game fish since it is served in restaurants which means it is caught and sold commercially.

you better find out for sure. you can also get redfish at some restaurants too. just cause they sell them doesn't mean its legal. brewbachers has a blackened redfish plate and its pretty good too. i didnt think redfish could be sold either till i ordered and ate some. also there's a place that sells crawfish, shrimp and redfish in port vincent. if it is illegal, some are getting away with it.

http://legis.la.gov/lss/lss.asp?doc=105616

Red drum are 'game fish' and cannot be harvested for sale in Louisiana. Restaurants that have red drum are getting them from other sources like farm raised fish, other states or countries that might still fish them commercially, etc.

RS 56:8.67.a,b

(67) 'Game fish' means all of the following species of freshwater and saltwater fish:

(a) Freshwater game fish means largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides), spotted bass (Micropterus punctulatus), shadow bass (Ambloplites ariommus), black or white crappie (Pomoxis nigromaculatus, P. annularis), white bass (Morone chrysops), yellow bass (Morone mississippiensi), striped bass (Morone saxatillis), hybrid striped bass (striped bass-white bass cross or striped bass-yellow bass cross), and any species of bream (Lepomis sp.).

(b) Saltwater game fish means any sailfish (Istiopharus platypterus), blue marlin (Makaira indica), black marlin (Makaira nigricans), striped marlin (Tetrapturus audax), hatchet marlin (Tetrapturus spp.), white marlin (Tetrapturus albidus), and red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus).

http://legis.la.gov/lss/lss.asp?doc=105209

Spotted sea trout are not 'game fish'. They are harvested commercially in Louisiana for sale and can be found in restaurants.

RS 56:325.3

Not going to copy this text from the law but, it explains how the Louisiana Wildlife Commission establishes the commercial quota for spotted sea trout taken by rod and reel in Louisiana.
There are also other sources of spotted sea trout from other areas where they are still commercially harvested.

I ask this question because many years ago when we all worked to throw out the gill nets they told us best way was to make them a game fish. So my question is when did this happen. I would think this would take some kind of special state law. I sure would like to known when, where and how this was done. As sportsman we all should have been standing on heads that day cause back then they said it would never happen due to the restaurants.

Trout are headed this way also. Only the fisherman who were fishing for trout at the time of the ban were given permits. These permits cannot be sold or transfered. They are tightly restricted times and dates they can be used. When these fishermen retire or die, there will be no more commercial fishing.