[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Jun-26-06 AT 01:35PM (EST)[/font][p]I am not sure about now, but at one time you had to have a permit to keep any wildlife. A friend of mine use to keep a lot of large fish tanks. He had one that he established and he called it his KENTUCKY TANK. He kept several different types of fish he had caught himself in it. This tank was huge, I do not remember it seems like it was a 200 gallon. It had a smallmouth in it, he had that fish for several years, until he turned it loose. I remember he also had to obtain a permit from the state to have the fish in the tank. I do not if you can or still have to get the permit but a one time you had too, according to him.