(a) Appointment and compensation.--The commission shall appoint to serve at its pleasure and, with the approval of the Governor, fix the compensation of an executive director who shall be the chief executive officer of the commission and attend to its administrative work and have charge of all activities under the jurisdiction of the commission. The executive director shall be the chief waterways patrolman of the commission and shall have charge of, direct, supervise, and control all waterways patrolmen, deputy waterways patrolmen and employees of the commission. No member of the commission nor any person who has served as a member thereof within one year shall be eligible for appointment as executive director.
(b) Power to catch, kill or possess fish.--The executive director or his agent may catch, take, kill or possess any fish at any time, in any season of the year and with any kind of net or device.