Unless otherwise authorized by the adoption of any Department regulation or issuance of Division permits subsequent to April 27, 1984, it shall be illegal for any person to fish for bait fish in the tidal waters of the State with any fishing equipment or by any method, except a hook and line, a fish pot or a fish trap, including a minnow trap, a dip net, a lift net that is operated without the use of power, a push net, a cast net that is operated without the use of power, a spear, a common haul seine that is operated without the use of power, a gill net being fished in more or less a straight line, and a bait seine or a bag net.

28 Del. Laws, c. 203; Code 1935, § ?2988; 7 Del. C. 1953, § ?907; 64 Del. Laws, c. 251, § ?1; 64 Del. Laws, c. 279, § ?2;