Here's a good one for you. In my state I can raise pheasants or other birds, I can release them, and I can shoot them without a license and with no limits. All I need to prove that they are my birds is a form to prove I bought the birds. Now when it comes to fish, I need a permit or form to stock them in my private pond but I can't catch anything out of season or without a license and I must abide by state limits and all other fishing regulations. So they seem to recognize that if I raise birds they belong to me and I can do with them as I please but when it comes to fish they are at least controlled by the state but probably not owned by the state. We do have definitions of public and private waters in Minnesota but I'm not sure if private waters are recognized as containing privately owned fish. Wonder why the difference?
