I'd be willing to bet that if he had a commercial fishing license, everything would have been legal. I don't know the laws about that in Michigan.

I know that when I was fishing in the Pacific off of the coast of California, we could not sell any part of the catch if everybody on the boat did not have a commercial fishing license. At least that's what we were told.

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