Commercial licenses expire December 31 each year, unless otherwise noted. You can renew your license online, in person, or by mail.
To operate any commercial transport vehicle and load, unload, or transport seafood, bait, reptiles, or amphibians, you must have one of the following LDWF-issued licenses. Common carriers are exempt from these license requirements. In addition, transport license requirements do not apply to processed fish or fish products (drying to a point of dehydration, canning, salting, breading, and cooking for immediate consumption).
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| Are a wholesale/retail seafood dealer with a Wholesale/Retail Seafood Dealer Business License delivering seafood | Seafood Transport License | $83 per vehicle (residents and nonresidents); can only be purchased by a licensed Louisiana commercial fisherman or wholesale/retail seafood dealer; issued in the purchaser’s name. If you’re transporting fish under a transport license, you may not buy or sell fish (unless working under a transport license purchased in connection with a wholesale/retail seafood dealer license and buying fish for and transporting such fish to the dealer to whom the license was issued). A dealer may purchase any number of transport licenses; transport licenses are freely transferable between vehicles, but the licensee remains responsible for all activities conducted under that license. |
| Are a wholesale/retail seafood dealer with a Wholesale/Retail Seafood Dealer Vehicle License delivering seafood | No additional transport license needed | |
| Are transporting a commercial fisherman’s catch to a wholesale/retail dealer for sale | Seafood Transport License | |
| Ship seafood out of state | Wholesale/Retail Seafood Dealer License OR Seafood Transport License purchased with the dealer license |
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| Operate commercial transport vehicles and load, unload, or transport reptiles or amphibians | Reptile and Amphibian Collector License, Reptile and Amphibian Wholesale/Retail Dealer License, OR Reptile and Amphibian Transport License OR Wholesale/Retail Seafood Dealer License along with a Seafood Transport License |
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| Import live viable oysters, regardless of life stage and ploidy, and intend to place those oysters or their progeny, regardless if they are contained or released, in Louisiana waters | Oyster Importation Permit |
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