I expect this to be approved by the Regulations Committee and our Commission. I haven't heard if that has occurred yet though. It will then be posted on the Secretary of State's webpage for public comments. The earliest it would go into effect would be March 1, 2019.

Ideally under this regulation folks will release the under 9" white crappie and concentrate harvest on the black crappie. The purpose is to remove slow growing fish. Those are the black crappie. There is quite a bit more meat on the shorter blacks than there is on the shorter whites so hopefully that will encourage people to keep the blacks and turn back the whites under 9".