Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-192g — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 491 / Section 26-192g
Sec. 26-192g. (Formerly Sec. 19a-100). Enforcement.
Status: in_force

See Sec. 26-192i for definition of “shellfish”.

See Sec. 26-206 re shellfish police.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-249 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 492 / Section 26-249
Sec. 26-249. Private ownership in cultivated shellfish.
Status: in_force

To dig shellfish between high and low water marks is a common right. 5 D. 22. Riparian owner may wharf or channel. 62 C. 139. Cited. 112 C. 214; 177 C. 287.

When one has franchise to oyster ground, town liable for damage it causes by laying sewer pipes. 12 CS 135.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-247 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 492 / Section 26-247
Sec. 26-247. Removal of beds improperly staked.
Status: in_force

In the absence of legislative authority, the state can only invoke judicial action. 48 C. 447; 55 C. 266. Clams and oysters are distinct species of shellfish. Id., 265. Title to natural bed cannot be gained by adverse possession; section is constitutional. 56 C. 509. Provision for removal of stakes is not designed as a method of trying title; nor provision allowing time for removal of oysters, to restrict public rights, but to prevent sudden and forcible ejectment; no recovery allowed for taking a few cents' worth of planted oysters intermingled with natural growth. 66 C. 285.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-109 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-109
Sec. 26-109. Dividing lines between inland and marine waters in Groton, Stonington, the Niantic River and the Housatonic River.
Status: in_force

(b) The demarcation line between inland and marine waters of the Niantic River shall be the Golden Spur Bridge over Route 1A.

(c) The demarcation line between inland and marine waters of the Housatonic River shall be the Merritt Parkway Bridge over the Housatonic River.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-69 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-69
Sec. 26-69. Wildlife management practices.
Status: in_force

See Sec. 26-99 re establishment of fish and game refuges.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-192h — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 491 / Section 26-192h
Sec. 26-192h. (Formerly Sec. 19a-101). License for the taking of shellfish from closed areas for certain purposes.
Status: in_force

See Sec. 26-192i for definition of “shellfish”.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-142a — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-142a
Sec. 26-142a. Definitions. Licenses, permits, registrations and endorsements. Regulations. Prohibitions. Nonresident licenses. Fees. Commissioner authority. Revocation. Violations. Penalties. Limited access licenses.
Status: in_force

(1) “Application deadline” means March thirty-first of each year;

(2) “Commercial bait fishing” means commercial fishing by use of seines, traps, scaps, scoops, weirs or similar devices to take and land bait species;

(3) “Commercial blue crab fishing” means commercial fishing by use of scoop nets, hand lines or manually operated and personally attended devices approved by the commissioner to take and land blue crabs only;

(4) “Commercial fishing vessel” means a commercial landing vessel, or a vessel used to engage in commercial lobster pot fishing, otter trawl fishing, general commercial fishing or pound net fishing. “Commercial fishing vessel” does not include any skiff used to aid the primary pound net fishing vessel;

(5) “Commercial landing vessel” means a vessel used to land regulated species taken in commercial fishing conducted exclusively outside the waters of this state;

(6) “Commercial lobster pot fishing” means commercial fishing by use of lobster pots only to take and land regulated species other than blue crabs;

(7) “Commercial shad fishing” means commercial fishing by use of gill nets, seines, scap or scoop nets to take and land American shad only;

(8) “Environmental tourism vessel” means a vessel used to carry passengers for hire and operated for the purpose of providing a platform for education and observation and collection of marine or estuarine species using commercial fishing gear under conditions specified in the permit issued under this section;

(9) “General commercial fishing” means commercial fishing by use of gill nets, seines, traps, fish pots, cast nets, fykes, scaps, scoops, eel pots, hook and line or similar devices to take and land squid, finfish other than American shad or bait species, or commercial fishing for horseshoe crabs by hand;

(10) “Limited access license” means any endorsement, license, permit, or registration required under this section, the number of which may be limited by the commissioner or by a provision of the general statutes;

(11) “Otter trawl fishing” means commercial fishing by use of otter trawls, beam trawls, balloon trawls, mid-water trawls, sea scallop dredges or any similar device to take and land regulated species other than blue crabs;

(12) “Party or charter fishing vessel” means a vessel used to carry passengers for hire and operated for the purpose of providing a recreational fishing platform to take and land marine regulated species;

(13) “Personal use gill net fishing” means the use of a gill net of not more than sixty feet in length to take menhaden only for personal use and not for sale;

(14) “Personal use lobster fishing” means: (A) The use of not more than ten lobster pots to take lobsters and finfish only for personal use and not for sale whenever such finfish are taken incidental to lobster fishing and in accordance with recreational fishery creel limits, length limits and seasons adopted pursuant to section 26-159a , or (B) the taking of lobsters for personal use only by hand or by skin or scuba diving;

(15) “Pound net fishing” means commercial fishing by use of pound nets or similar devices to take regulated species other than lobsters or blue crabs;

(16) “Principal commercial fishing license” means a license authorizing both commercial lobster pot fishing and otter trawl fishing;

(17) “Quota-managed species” means a regulated species managed through a state-wide seasonal or annual commercial harvest limit;

(18) “Restricted commercial fishing” means: (A) Commercial fishing by use of hook and line to take squid and finfish, other than American shad or bait species, or (B) the taking of menhaden by use of a gill net that is not more than two hundred feet in length and that is manually set and retrieved and personally attended to when in use; and

(19) “Restricted commercial lobster pot fishing” means commercial fishing by only the use of not more than fifty lobster pots for the taking and landing of regulated species other than blue crabs.

(b) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, no person shall take or attempt to take any regulated species for commercial purposes or use commercial fishing gear or land any regulated species in this state for commercial purposes, regardless of where taken, without first obtaining a license as provided in this chapter. No person shall act as a seafood dealer without first obtaining a license as provided in this chapter except that a commercial fisherman acting as a seafood dealer as defined in subparagraph (B) of subdivision (17) of section 26-1 shall not be required to obtain a seafood dealer's license. No person shall buy for resale regulated species landed in this state from any commercial fisherman unless such buyer and commercial fisherman have a license issued by the commissioner. No person shall operate an environmental tourism vessel, commercial landing vessel or a vessel used in commercial lobster pot fishing, general commercial fishing or otter trawl fishing unless the commissioner issued a permit for such vessel to the owner of such vessel. No person shall operate a party or charter fishing vessel unless the commissioner issued a registration for that vessel to the owner of such vessel. No person shall possess or land a quota-managed species taken while commercial fishing unless the commissioner issued such person a quota-managed species endorsement for such species or the commissioner issued a quota-managed species endorsement for such species to the owner of the principal commercial fishing vessel used to take such species, provided the commissioner may waive such quota-managed species endorsement requirement for a license or permit holder who possesses a small quantity of such species under conditions specified by the commissioner. No person shall take or attempt to take lobsters or horseshoe crabs for personal use unless such person is licensed by the commissioner.

(c) Notwithstanding the requirements of subsection (b) of this section:

(1) Any holder of a permit issued pursuant to section 26-60 shall not be required to obtain an environmental tourism vessel permit pursuant to this section;

(2) Any person licensed pursuant to this section may be accompanied and assisted by persons who are not licensed;

(3) Any persons setting, operating, tending or assisting in setting, operating or tending registered pound nets shall not be required to be licensed;

(4) The commissioner may, by regulations adopted in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, exempt certain minnow seines, cast nets, scoop nets, traps, eel pots, seines less than thirty feet in length or any similar device used to take bait species and other species for personal use under a sport fishing license in the inland district and under a marine waters fishing license in the marine district;

(5) The owner, operator or captain of a party or charter fishing vessel may sell the boat's or crew's share of any tuna species; and

(6) No license shall be required to take not more than one-half bushel of whelk daily.

(d) The use of a purse seine is prohibited. No person shall take finfish for commercial purposes in the inland district by the use of hook and line. No person shall take blue crabs for commercial purposes or for personal use except by scoop net, hand line or manually operated and personally attended devices approved by the commissioner. No person shall operate a party or charter fishing vessel or an environmental tourism vessel unless such person holds a current passenger-for-hire license issued by the United States Coast Guard. No vessel used to take regulated species may employ a fish pump except to offload the catch at a shore side facility.

(e) The commissioner shall issue endorsements, licenses, permits and registrations to qualified applicants upon the submission of an application containing such information as prescribed by the commissioner, and upon the payment of such endorsement, license, registration or permit fees as are required by subsection (f) of this section, except that a nonresident whose endorsement, permit, license or registration in the state of residence has been voided or suspended shall have the Connecticut endorsement, permit, license or registration voided or suspended during the suspension of such out-of-state endorsement, permit, license or registration or until another endorsement, permit, license or registration is obtained in the state of residence. The commissioner shall not issue any fishing license, endorsement or registration or vessel permit to any applicant who has not met the reporting requirements of section 26-157b . The commissioner shall not renew any limited access license, the application and payment for which is received or postmarked after the application deadline. Failure to renew any limited access license and associated commercial fishing vessel permit annually shall constitute a permanent forfeiture of renewal privileges for such limited access license. Any person who forfeits license renewal privileges, as described in this subsection, shall be eligible to obtain another limited access license through means established by the commissioner for issuing a new limited access license. A resident of a state that does not issue commercial licenses to take eels to residents of this state shall not be eligible to obtain a commercial license to take eels in the waters of this state or to land eels in this state. A resident of a state that does not issue commercial licenses to take lobsters to residents of this state shall not be eligible to obtain a commercial license to take lobsters in the waters of this state or to land lobsters in this state. A nonresident shall not be issued a license to take lobsters if the laws of the nonresident's state concerning the taking of lobsters are less restrictive than regulations adopted pursuant to section 26-157c . No vessel permit or registration shall be issued to any person for any vessel during the time period that such vessel permit has been revoked pursuant to subsection (i) of this section. Any person endorsed, licensed, registered or permitted to engage in activities authorized by this subsection shall carry on their persons or aboard the vessel being used to engage in such activity the endorsement, license, registration or permit authorizing such activity. Any fishing license, endorsement or registration or vessel permit issued by the commissioner shall be nontransferable except as provided in section 26-142b and shall expire on the thirty-first day of December next following its issuance.

(f) The fee for the following fishing endorsements, licenses and registrations and for a commercial fishing vessel permit shall be: (1) For a commercial blue crab fishing license, one hundred fifty dollars; (2) for a personal use lobster fishing license, sixty dollars; (3) for a commercial lobster pot fishing license, one hundred ninety dollars for residents of this state and two hundred eighty-five dollars for nonresidents; (4) for a principal commercial fishing license, two hundred eighty-five dollars for residents of this state and one thousand five hundred dollars for nonresidents; (5) for a commercial shad fishing license, two hundred dollars; (6) for the registration of each pound net or similar device, two hundred eighty-five dollars; (7) for a general commercial fishing license, one hundred ninety dollars for residents of this state and two hundred fifty dollars for nonresidents, and any general commercial fishing license obtained for the taking of any fish species for commercial purposes by hook and line, in excess of any creel limit adopted under the authority of section 26-159a , three hundred seventy-five dollars for residents of this state and six hundred twenty-five dollars for nonresidents, provided for the taking for bait of horseshoe crabs only, this license may be issued without regard to the limitations in section 26-142b to any holder of a Department of Agriculture conch license who held such license between January 1, 1995, and July 1, 2000, inclusive; (8) for a commercial bait fishing license to take bait species in the inland district for commercial purposes, one hundred dollars; (9) for a commercial bait fishing license to take bait species in the marine district, one hundred dollars; (10) for a seafood dealer license, two hundred fifty dollars; (11) for a party or charter fishing vessel registration, three hundred fifteen dollars; (12) for a commercial landing vessel operator's license, five hundred dollars; (13) for a commercial fishing vessel permit, one hundred dollars; (14) for a personal use gill net fishing license, one hundred dollars; (15) for an environmental tourism vessel permit, one hundred dollars; (16) for a restricted commercial fishing license, one hundred twenty-five dollars for residents and two hundred fifty dollars for nonresidents; (17) for a restricted commercial lobster pot fishing license, one hundred twenty-five dollars for residents and two hundred fifty dollars for nonresidents; (18) for a quota-managed species endorsement, fifteen dollars for each species endorsement; and (19) for a license to take whelk in excess of one-half bushel daily, one hundred dollars.

(g) The commissioner may determine for all waters of the state, including the inland and marine districts, areas within which commercial fishing gear may be set or used, the specifications and dimensions of such commercial fishing gear, including materials, length, depth, width, and size of mesh, the length of set lines or long lines, the number and size of hooks, and, for all commercial fishing and landing activities by persons issued either a commercial fishing vessel permit or a license by the commissioner, regardless where such activities take place, the species which may be taken, possessed or landed, the limits on at-sea fish processing related to preserving species identification and prevention of wasteful harvesting practices, the seasons in which species may be taken, possessed or landed, the number and size of regulated species which may be taken, possessed or landed and the rules regulating the use of commercial fishing gear, including hours or days of use, and the number of endorsements, licenses, permits or registrations which may be issued. In managing the number of limited access licenses issued, the commissioner may consider an applicant's recent fishing activity authorized under this section, use random draw, lease not more than twenty per cent of the available harvest of any quota-managed species, or use other methods for managing the number of fishery participants. The commissioner may also order the emergency closure of any fishery if such closure is necessary to conform to regulations adopted under the Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976 (Public Law 94-265, as amended) or by other regional fisheries management authorities.

(h) The commissioner may, during and for any reasonable period of time prior to and after the spawning period of any inland or marine game fish or food fish, close any portion of any inland or marine water where any such fish congregate prior to or during the spawning season.

(i) The commissioner shall revoke any commercial fishing vessel permit issued under authority of subsection (e) of this section upon conviction or upon the forfeiture of any bond taken upon any complaint, for the following offenses: (1) Possession of ten or more egg-bearing lobsters or lobsters from which the eggs have been removed; (2) possession of either: (A) Ten or more lobsters less than the minimum length if such lobsters constitute more than ten per cent of the lobsters on board; or (B) fifty lobsters which are less than the minimum length, whichever is the lesser amount; (3) possession of either: (A) Twenty or more finfish of at least one species which are less than the minimum length if such finfish constitute more than ten per cent of the finfish on board for that species; or (B) one hundred finfish of at least one species which are less than the minimum length, whichever is the lesser amount; (4) possession of either: (A) Quota-managed species more than twenty per cent in excess of the possession limit for such species, or (B) fifty pounds, whichever is the greater amount; (5) for a second offense within seven hundred thirty days in violation of regulations relating to bottom trawl nets adopted under this section; (6) for a second offense within seven hundred thirty days for possession of regulated species, other than quota-managed species, more than ten per cent in excess of possession limits specified in regulations adopted under authority of section 26-157c or 26-159a . Such revocation period shall be for one hundred eighty days for a first offense, one year for a second offense, two years for a third offense, and shall be permanent for a fourth offense. The provisions of this subsection are in addition to and in no way derogate from any other enforcement provision or penalty contained in any other statute.

(j) Except as provided in subdivision (2) of this subsection, (1) any person who violates any provision of this section shall for a first offense, be guilty of a class C misdemeanor, and each animal taken or possessed in violation of any provision of this section shall constitute a separate offense, and for any subsequent offense, be guilty of a class B misdemeanor, and each animal taken or possessed in violation of this section shall constitute a separate offense; and (2) any person who violates any regulation concerning sport fishing for blue crabs adopted in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 and this section shall have committed an infraction and may pay the fine by mail or plead not guilty in accordance with the provisions of section 51-164n .

(k) Until regulations identifying limited access licenses are adopted the following commercial fishing licenses shall be limited access licenses and shall be issued only to persons who held such license at any time from June 1, 1995, to December 31, 2003, inclusive: Commercial lobster pot fishing, principal commercial fishing, and general commercial fishing.

Cited. 23 C. 272.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-86f — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-86f
Sec. 26-86f. Hunting of fawn deer prohibited.
Status: in_force

Term “fawn deer” applies only to a deer that retains a spotted coat; section is a penal statute and this is constitutional interpretation consistent with legislative intent. 63 CA 207.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-55a — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-55a
Sec. 26-55a. Possession of diploid grass carp.
Status: in_force

(b) The department shall evaluate each site where diploid grass carp are present.

(c) The department shall allow diploid grass carp present in Connecticut on June 6, 1989, to remain, provided such carp are in a contained environment. As used in this subsection, “contained environment” means a lake or pond that has no outlet or whose outlet is screened or otherwise controlled to prevent the migration of fish.

(d) The department shall publicize the statutes and regulations pertaining to the importation, possession and liberation of diploid grass carp into the state.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-253 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 492 / Section 26-253
Sec. 26-253. Trespass on designated ground.
Status: in_force

Section applies to grounds when defective designation is validated. 64 C. 217.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-232 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 491 / Section 26-232
Sec. 26-232. Taking oysters from natural beds or the Housatonic or Saugatuck Rivers.
Status: in_force

(b) The Commissioner of Agriculture, upon application of the Stratford Shellfish Commission, may, at any time, close the season for the taking of any shellfish in the Housatonic River for purposes of conserving the resource.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-230 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 491 / Section 26-230
Sec. 26-230. Speculation in ground prohibited. Illegally staking ground.
Status: in_force

History of law. 74 C. 377.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-102 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-102
Sec. 26-102. Fish spawning areas and refuges.
Status: in_force

See Sec. 26-117 re fines for violation.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-141b — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-141b
Sec. 26-141b. Adoption of regulations establishing flow standards for rivers and streams. Procedure.
Status: in_force

*Note: Section 3 of public act 00-152 is special in nature and therefore has not been codified but remains in full force and effect according to its terms.

Statute intended not only to protect state's fish stocking program, but designed to accommodate many interests and concerns, including having sufficient water available for natural aquatic life, natural and stocked wildlife and public recreation. 260 C. 506.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-157f — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-157f
Sec. 26-157f. Lobster Restoration Advisory Committee. Establishment. Membership. Appointment, procedure and compensation.
Status: in_force

(b) The committee shall be comprised of the following eleven members: (1) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection, or the commissioner's designee, (2) the Commissioner of Agriculture, or the commissioner's designee, (3) the state's administrative commissioner to the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, (4) the state's legislative commissioner to the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, (5) the state's commissioner who has been appointed by the Governor to the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, (6) a representative of the Southern New England Fishermen's and Lobsterman's Association, (7) a representative of the Connecticut Commercial Lobstermen's Association, (8) a representative of the Long Island Western End Lobstermen's Association, (9) a representative of the state vocational aquaculture school known as the Sound School in New Haven, (10) a representative of a state vocational aquaculture school in Bridgeport, and (11) a representative of the Connecticut Seafood Council.

(c) The committee shall be appointed jointly by the Commissioners of Energy and Environmental Protection and Agriculture, after receiving appointment nominations from each group listed in subsection (b) of this section, not more than thirty days after May 26, 2006. The committee shall elect its own chairman and such other officers and adopt such rules of procedure as it may deem appropriate. Members of said committee shall receive no compensation for their services but shall be reimbursed for necessary expenses in the performance of their duties.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-6a — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-6a
Sec. 26-6a. Constables for fish and game protection.
Status: in_force

(b) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall request that the chief executive authority of a town, city or borough appoint constables pursuant to subsection (a) of this section when the commissioner has received written reports of violations in such town, city or borough of the regulations for hunting in proximity to buildings occupied by persons or domestic animals or used for storage of flammable or combustible materials or the regulations for shooting towards persons, buildings or animals.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-257a — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 492 / Section 26-257a
Sec. 26-257a. Local shellfish commissions.
Status: in_force

(b) Such commission shall have charge of all the shellfisheries and shellfish grounds lying in such municipality or municipalities not granted to others and not under the jurisdiction of the Commissioner of Agriculture, including all rivers, inland waters and flats adjacent to all beaches and waters within the limits and marine bounds of the municipality or municipalities. The commission may designate suitable places in the navigable waters within its jurisdiction for planting or cultivating oysters, clams or mussels. The commission may issue licenses for the taking of shellfish therefrom and fix the fees therefor, may designate the quantities of such shellfish to be taken, the sizes of such shellfish and the methods of taking. The commission may prohibit the taking of such shellfish from certain designated areas for periods not in excess of one year. All moneys collected by the commission under the provisions of this section shall be paid to the commission and used by it for the protection and propagation of the shellfish under its control. Any person who violates any regulation issued by the commission pursuant to this section shall be fined not more than two hundred fifty dollars.

(c) The commission shall prepare and periodically update a shellfish management plan. The plan shall be submitted to the Commissioner of Agriculture and any appropriate board of selectmen, mayor or warden for review and comment.

(d) All updates to the commission's shellfish management plan made pursuant to subsection (c) of this section and any comments made by the Department of Agriculture regarding such updates shall be in writing and shall be subject to the provisions of chapter 14.

Cited. 231 C. 418.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-248 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 492 / Section 26-248
Sec. 26-248. Procedure to dam creek or inlet.
Status: in_force

Strict compliance in mode of procedure is requisite; whether all the owners of lands are required to join, quaere; public rights in a natural bed not affected. 42 C. 255.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-200 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 491 / Section 26-200
Sec. 26-200. Survey and staking; maps; fee.
Status: in_force

Effect of survey and map in fixing designations. 62 C. 50; 66 C. 285.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-136 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-136
Sec. 26-136. Fishways.
Status: in_force

(b) Within thirty days from the receipt of such petition or application, the commissioner shall set a time and place for a hearing thereon, if in the opinion of the commissioner a hearing is reasonable or necessary.

(c) Upon determination that a fishway is necessary, the commissioner shall issue an order to the person, firm, corporation or municipality or political subdivision thereof owning or controlling the dam or obstruction to construct a fishway in the form, material, capacity, at such location and within such time as the commissioner establishes. The commissioner shall cause a copy of the order to be served on the person, firm, corporation or municipality or political subdivision thereof. Such fishway shall be constructed and maintained subject to the approval of the commissioner, and shall be kept open and free for the passage of such fish in such manner and during such period as the commissioner requires. If no such period is specified by the commissioner, it shall be kept open and free from April first to November first in each year.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-317 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 495 / Section 26-317
Sec. 26-317. Big six African species. Defined. Importation, possession, sale, offering for sale and transporting prohibited. Enforcement. Exemptions. Seizing of specimen. Violation. Penalty.
Status: in_force

(b) No person shall import, possess, sell, offer for sale or transport in this state any big six African species.

(c) Any law enforcement officer shall have authority to enforce the provisions of this section and, whenever necessary, to execute any warrant to search for and seize any big six African species imported, possessed, sold, offered for sale or transported in violation of this section.

(d) The provisions of subsection (b) of this section shall not apply if the possession of such specimen of a big six African species is expressly authorized by any federal law or permit, or if any of the following conditions exist that are not otherwise prohibited by federal law: (1) Such specimen of a big six African species was located or possessed within the state prior to October 1, 2021, and the legal owner of such specimen obtained a certificate of possession from the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection not later than one hundred eighty days after October 1, 2021; (2) such specimen of a big six African species is to be part of a temporary or permanent collection of a museum or an educational or scientific institution that has a tax exemption from the federal Internal Revenue Service as an educational or scientific institution or is to be used by a zoological institution for educational purposes, provided such specimen is not subsequently sold, offered for sale, traded, bartered or distributed to any other party that is not a tax exempt museum or educational or scientific institution; (3) such specimen was imported to the state by a tax exempt educational or scientific institution for purposes of research; (4) such specimen of a big six African species is possessed in the state for the purpose of performing taxidermy services, provided such specimen is removed from the state not later than fourteen days following completion of such taxidermy services; or (5) such specimen of a big six African species is distributed directly to a legal beneficiary of a trust or to a legal heir provided: (A) Such specimen was located or possessed by the decedent prior to the effective date of this section, (B) such beneficiary or heir does not subsequently sell, offer for sale, trade, barter or distribute such specimen to any other person, and (C) such beneficiary or heir obtains a certificate of possession from the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection not later than one hundred eighty days after receipt of such specimen.

(e) Any specimen of a big six African species and any other property or item used in connection with a violation of the provisions of this section shall be seized and held pending any criminal proceeding pursuant to this section. In any criminal prosecution pursuant to this section, secondary evidence, including, but not limited to, photographs, shall be admissible against the defendant to the same extent as such specimen would be admissible.

(f) (1) Any person who violates the provisions of this section for (A) a first offense shall have committed an infraction, unless such person in good faith at the time of such offense was unaware that he or she was importing, possessing, selling, offering for sale or transporting any specimen of a big six African species, or (B) a second offense shall have committed an infraction if such person previously violated the provisions of this section, but was not found to have committed an infraction because he or she in good faith at the time of such previous offense was unaware that he or she was importing, possessing, selling, offering for sale or transporting any specimen of a big six African species.

(2) Any person who subsequently violates the provisions of this section and whose immediate previous offense for a violation of this section was an infraction under subdivision (1) of this subsection shall be guilty of a class B misdemeanor.

(3) Any person who violates the provisions of this section for any offense subsequent to an offense under subdivision (2) of this subsection shall be guilty of a class D felony.

(g) Any specimen of a big six African species and any other property or item that is seized and held pursuant to this section shall be forfeited and, upon such forfeiture, destroyed if seized from any person who is found to have violated the provisions of this section or who is restrained by a judgment from importing, possessing, selling, offering for sale or transporting any specimen of a big six African species on the grounds that such activity is or would be a violation of the provisions of this section. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to require or authorize the destruction of a living specimen of a big six African species.

(h) Nothing in this section shall be construed to apply to the importing, possessing, selling, offering for sale or transporting of ivory in this state.

(i) Nothing in this section shall be construed to apply to the importing, transporting or possessing of a live big six African species by any zoological institution or circus.

(j) Nothing in this section shall be construed to apply to the transportation, purchase, exhibition or use of any animal in a motion picture, television or digital media production by a motion picture, television or digital media production company that employs or contracts with a dealer or exhibitor licensed pursuant to 7 USC 2133, as amended from time to time, or with a carrier, intermediate handler or unlicensed exhibitor registered under 7 USC 2136, as amended from time to time, to conduct such transport, purchase, exhibition or use.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-90 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-90
Sec. 26-90. False statement, penalty. General penalty.
Status: in_force

(b) Any person who violates any provision of this part, or any regulation issued by the commissioner pursuant thereto, for which no other penalty is provided shall be guilty of a class D misdemeanor, and the possession of each quadruped or part thereof taken in violation of any such provision shall be a separate offense. Any firearm, shell, cartridge and any other weapon and any other device used, or intended to be used, and found by the trial court to have been in the possession of any person charged with a violation of this section or any provision of section 26-82 or 26-86a , when such person is convicted, or upon the forfeiture of any bond taken upon any such complaint, shall be ordered by the trial court to be forfeited to the state and all such articles shall, by order of said court, be turned over to the commissioner and may be retained for use by the department or assigned by the commissioner to any other state agency, may be sold by the Commissioner of Administrative Services at the request of the commissioner or may be destroyed at the discretion of the commissioner. All moneys collected as a result of any such sale shall be transmitted to the State Treasurer and by him be deposited to the General Fund.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-31a — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-31a
Sec. 26-31a. Instruction in fishing techniques.
Status: in_force

(b) All certified fishing instructors shall, while performing their duties under this section, be covered by liability and property damage insurance protection, which insurance shall be in an amount satisfactory to and negotiated by the Comptroller and the premium for such insurance shall be paid from the General Fund.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-26b — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-26b
Sec. 26-26b. Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact.
Status: in_force

INTERSTATE WILDLIFE VIOLATOR COMPACT ADOPTION OF COMPACT

The Wildlife Violator Compact is hereby enacted into law and entered into by the state of Connecticut with any and all states legally joining therein in accordance with its terms. The compact is substantially as follows:

ARTICLE I

Findings, Declaration of Policy and Purpose

(a) The party states find that:

(1) Wildlife resources are managed in trust by the respective states for the benefit of all residents and visitors.

(2) The protection of their respective wildlife resources may be materially affected by the degree of compliance with state statute or rule relating to the management of those resources.

(3) The preservation, protection, management, and restoration of wildlife contributes immeasurably to the aesthetic, recreational, and economic aspects of these natural resources.

(4) Wildlife resources are valuable without regard to political boundaries; therefore, all persons should be required to comply with wildlife preservation, protection, management, and restoration statutes, rules, and other law of all party states as a condition precedent to the continuance or issuance of any license to hunt, fish, trap, or possess wildlife.

(5) Violation of wildlife laws interferes with the management of wildlife resources and may endanger the safety of persons and property.

(6) The mobility of many wildlife law violators necessitates the maintenance of channels of communications among the various states.

(7) A person who is cited for a wildlife violation in a state other than the person's home state:

(A) May be required to post collateral or bond to secure appearance for a trial at a later date;

(B) If unable to post collateral or bond, may be taken into custody until the collateral or bond is posted; or

(C) May be taken directly to court for an immediate appearance.

(8) The purpose of the enforcement practices described in subdivision (7) of this subsection is to ensure compliance with the terms of a wildlife citation by the person who, if permitted to continue on the person's way after receiving the citation, could return to the person's home state and disregard the person's duty under the terms of the citation.

(9) A person receiving a wildlife citation in the person's home state is permitted to accept the citation from the officer at the scene of the violation and to continue immediately on the person's way after agreeing or being instructed to comply with the terms of the citation.

(10) The practice described in subdivision (7) of this subsection causes unnecessary inconvenience and, at times, a hardship for the person who is unable at the time to post collateral, furnish a bond, stand trial, or pay the fine, and thus is compelled to remain in custody until some alternative arrangement can be made.

(11) The enforcement practices described in subdivision (7) of this subsection consume an undue amount of law enforcement time.

(b) It is the policy of the party states to:

(1) Promote compliance with the statutes, rules, and other applicable law relating to management of wildlife resources in their respective states.

(2) Recognize the suspension of wildlife license privileges or rights of any person whose license privileges or rights have been suspended by a party state and treat this suspension as if it had occurred in the person's state.

(3) Allow violators to accept a wildlife citation, except as provided in subsection (b) of Article III of this compact, and be released without delay whether or not the person is a resident in the state in which the citation was issued, provided that the violator's home state is party to this compact.

(4) Report to the appropriate party state any conviction that would subject a person to suspension and that is recorded against any person whose home state was not the issuing state.

(5) Allow the home state to recognize and treat a conviction that would subject a person to suspension and that is recorded for their residents and which occurred in another party state as if the conviction had occurred in the home state.

(6) Extend cooperation to its fullest extent among the party states for obtaining compliance with the terms of a wildlife citation issued in one party state to a resident of another party state.

(7) Maximize effective use of law enforcement personnel and information.

(8) Assist court systems in the efficient disposition of wildlife violations.

(c) The purpose of this compact is to:

(1) Provide a means through which the party states may participate in a reciprocal program to effectuate policies enumerated in subsection (b) of this article in a uniform and orderly manner.

(2) Provide for the fair and impartial treatment of wildlife violators operating within party states in recognition of the person's right of due process and the sovereign status of a party state.

ARTICLE II

Definitions

The definitions in this article apply throughout this compact and are intended only for the implementation of this compact:

(1) “Citation” means any summons, complaint, ticket, penalty assessment, or other official document issued by a wildlife officer or other peace officer for a wildlife violation containing an order which requires the person to respond.

(2) “Collateral” means any cash or other security deposited to secure an appearance for trial in connection with the issuance by a wildlife officer or other peace officer of a citation for a wildlife violation.

(3) “Compliance” with respect to a citation means the act of answering the citation through appearance at a court, a tribunal, or payment of fines, costs, and surcharges, if any, or both such appearance and payment.

(4) “Conviction” means a conviction, including any court conviction, of any offense related to the preservation, protection, management, or restoration of wildlife which is prohibited by state statute, rule, or other relevant law, or a forfeiture of bail, bond, or other security deposited to secure the appearance by a person charged with having committed any such offense, or payment of a penalty assessment, or a plea of nolo contendere, or the imposition of a deferred or suspended sentence by the court.

(5) “Court” means a court of law.

(6) “Home state” means the state of primary residence of a person.

(7) “Issuing state” means the party state which issues a wildlife citation to the violator.

(8) “License” means any license, permit, or other public document that conveys to the person to whom it was issued the privilege of pursuing, possessing, or taking any wildlife regulated by statute, rule, or other relevant law of a party state.

(9) “Licensing authority” means the department within each party state authorized by law to issue or approve licenses or permits to hunt, fish, trap, or possess wildlife.

(10) “Party state” means any state which enacts legislation to become a member of this wildlife compact.

(11) “Personal recognizance” means an agreement by a person made at the time of issuance of the wildlife citation that the person will comply with the terms of that citation.

(12) “State” means any state, territory, or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

(13) “Suspension” means any revocation, denial, or withdrawal of any or all license privileges or rights, including the privilege or right to apply for, purchase, or exercise the benefits conferred by any license.

(14) “Terms of the citation” means those conditions and options expressly stated upon the citation.

(15) “Wildlife” means all species of animals, including, but not necessarily limited to, mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, mollusks, and crustaceans, which are defined as “wildlife” and are protected or otherwise regulated by statute, rule, or other relevant law in a party state. “Wildlife” also means food fish and shellfish as defined by statute, rule, or other relevant law in a party state. Species included in the definition of “wildlife” vary from state to state and determination of whether a species is “wildlife” for the purposes of this compact shall be based on state law.

(16) “Wildlife law” means any statute, law, regulation, ordinance, or administrative rule developed and enacted to manage wildlife resources and the use thereof.

(17) “Wildlife officer” means any individual authorized by a party state to issue a citation for a wildlife violation.

(18) “Wildlife violation” means any cited violation of a statute, rule, or other relevant law developed and enacted to manage wildlife resources and the use thereof.

ARTICLE III

Procedures for Issuing State

(a) When issuing a citation for a wildlife violation, a wildlife officer shall issue a citation to any person whose primary residence is in a party state in the same manner as if the person were a resident of the home state and shall not require the person to post collateral to secure appearance, subject to the exceptions contained in subsection (b) of this article, if the officer receives the person's personal recognizance that the person will comply with the terms of the citation.

(b) Personal recognizance is acceptable:

(1) If not prohibited by local law or the rules of the department of fish and wildlife; and

(2) If the violator provides adequate proof of the violator's identification to the wildlife officer.

(c) Upon conviction of a wildlife violation subject to suspension or upon failure of a person to comply with the terms of a wildlife citation, the appropriate official shall report the conviction or failure to comply with the licensing authority of the party state in which the wildlife citation was issued. The report shall be made in accordance with procedures specified by the issuing state.

(d) Upon receipt of the report of conviction or noncompliance required by subsection (c) of this article, the licensing authority of the issuing state shall transmit to the licensing authority in the home state of the violator the information in a form and content specified by the department of fish and wildlife in rule.

ARTICLE IV

Procedures for Home State

(a) Upon receipt of a report of a failure to comply with the terms of a citation from the licensing authority of the issuing state, the licensing authority of the home state shall notify the violator, shall initiate a suspension action in accordance with the home state's enforcement procedures, and shall suspend the violator's license privileges or rights until satisfactory evidence of compliance with the terms of the wildlife citation has been furnished by the issuing state to the home state licensing authority. Due process safeguards will be accorded.

(b) Upon receipt of a report of conviction of a wildlife violation subject to suspension from the licensing authority of the issuing state, the licensing authority of the home state shall enter such conviction in its records according to current procedure and shall treat such conviction as if it occurred in the home state for the purposes of the suspension of license privileges and for the purposes of the term of the suspension of privileges.

(c) The licensing authority of the home state shall maintain a record of actions taken and make reports to issuing states as provided in rules adopted by the department of fish and wildlife.

ARTICLE V

Reciprocal Recognition of Suspension

All party states shall recognize the suspension of license privileges or rights of any person by any party state as if the violation on which the suspension is based had in fact occurred in the person's state and would have been the basis for suspension of license privileges or rights in his or her state.

ARTICLE VI

Applicability of Other Laws

Except as expressly required by provisions of this compact, nothing herein shall be construed to affect the right of any party state to apply any of its laws relating to license privileges to any person or circumstance, or to invalidate or prevent any agreement or other cooperative arrangements between a party state and a nonparty state concerning wildlife law enforcement.

ARTICLE VII

Compact Administrator Procedures

(a) For the purpose of administering the provisions of this compact and to serve as a governing body for the resolution of all matters relating to the operation of this compact, a board of compact administrators is established. The board of compact administrators shall be composed of one representative from each of the party states to be known as the compact administrator. The compact administrator shall be appointed by the head of the licensing authority of each party state, except that in Connecticut the compact administrator shall be the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection, or the commissioner's designee, and will serve and be subject to removal in accordance with the laws of the state the administrator represents. A compact administrator may provide for the discharge of the administrator's duties and the performance of the administrator's functions as a board of compact administrators' member by an alternate. An alternate may not be entitled to serve unless written notification of the alternate's identity has been given to the board of compact administrators.

(b) Each member of the board of compact administrators shall be entitled to one vote. No action of the board of compact administrators shall be binding unless taken at a meeting at which a majority of the total number of votes on the board of compact administrators are cast in favor thereof. Action by the board of compact administrators shall be only at a meeting at which a majority of the party states are represented.

(c) The board of compact administrators shall elect annually, from its membership, a chairperson and vice chairperson.

(d) The board of compact administrators shall adopt bylaws, not inconsistent with the provisions of this compact or the laws of a party state, for the conduct of its business and shall have the power to amend and rescind its bylaws.

(e) The board of compact administrators may accept for any of its purposes and functions under this compact all donations and grants of money, equipment, supplies, materials, and services, conditional or otherwise, from any state, the United States, or any governmental agency, and may receive, utilize, and dispose of the same.

(f) The board of compact administrators may contract with or accept services or personnel from any governmental or intergovernmental agency, individual, firm, corporation, or any private nonprofit organization or institution.

(g) The board of compact administrators shall formulate all necessary procedures and develop uniform forms and documents for administering the provisions of this compact. All procedures and forms adopted pursuant to the board of contact administrators' action shall be contained in the rules adopted by the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (“the Department”).

ARTICLE VIII

Entry Into Compact and Withdrawal

(a) This compact shall become effective when it has been adopted by at least two states.

(b) (1) Entry into the compact shall be made by an act or resolution of ratification executed by the authorized officials of the applying state and submitted to the chairperson of the board of compact administrators.

(2) The act or resolution shall include statements that in substance are as follows:

(A) A citation of the authority by which the state is empowered to become a party to this compact;

(B) Agreement to comply with the terms and provisions of the compact; and

(C) That compact entry is with all states then party to the compact and with any state that legally becomes a party to the compact.

(3) The effective date of entry shall be specified by the applying state, but shall not be less than sixty days after notice has been given by the chairperson of the board of compact administrators or by the secretariat of the board of compact administrators to each party state that has received the resolution from the applying state.

(c) A party state may withdraw from this compact by official written notice to the other party states, but a withdrawal shall not take effect until ninety days after notice of withdrawal is given. The notice shall be directed to the compact administrator of each member state. No withdrawal shall affect the validity of this compact as to the remaining party states.

ARTICLE IX

Amendments to the Compact

(a) This compact may be amended from time to time. Amendments shall be presented in resolution form to the chairperson of the board of compact administrators and may be initiated by one or more party states.

(b) Adoption of an amendment shall require endorsement by all party states and shall become effective thirty days after the date of the last endorsement.

(c) Failure of a party state to respond to the compact chairperson within one hundred twenty days after receipt of the proposed amendment shall constitute endorsement.

ARTICLE X

Construction and Severability

This compact shall be liberally construed so as to effectuate the purposes stated herein. The provisions of this compact shall be severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, or provision of this compact is declared to be contrary to the constitution of any party state or of the United States, or the applicability thereof to any government, agency, individual, or circumstance is held invalid, the compact shall not be affected thereby. If this compact shall be held contrary to the constitution of any party state thereto, the compact shall remain in full force and effect as to the remaining states and in full force and effect as to the state affected as to all severable matters.

ARTICLE XI

Compact Title

This compact shall be known as the Wildlife Violator Compact.

Compact Administrator

The compact administrator for Connecticut shall be the commissioner of the Department or a designated representative of the commissioner. The duties of the compact administrator shall be deemed a regular part of the duties of the office of the commissioner of the Department.

Rulemaking

The Department may adopt rules to carry out the purposes of this chapter.

Penalties

(a) The commissioner of the Department may suspend a Connecticut hunting, fishing, or trapping license of a person convicted of a wildlife violation in a state party to the compact, provided that the wildlife violation would have been the basis for suspension of license privileges in Connecticut.

(b) No person whose license, privilege, or right to hunt, fish, trap, possess, or transport wildlife, having been suspended or revoked pursuant to this chapter, shall be issued a license to hunt, fish, or trap in Connecticut.

(c) (1) Prior to suspending a Connecticut hunting, fishing, or trapping license of a person under subsection (a) of this article, the commissioner shall notify the person in writing. A suspension shall be deemed effective:

(A) When given if notice is made in person; or

(B) Three days after the deposit of notice in the United States mails, if notice is made in writing.

(2) A person receiving notice under subsection (a) of this article may, within twenty days of the date notice is given, request a hearing before the commissioner on whether the requirements for suspension or penalty have been met. The requesting person may present evidence and arguments at the hearing only regarding whether:

(A) A participating state suspended the person's privileges;

(B) There was a conviction in the participating state;

(C) The person failed to comply with the terms of a citation issued for a wildlife violation in a participating state; or

(D) A conviction in a participating state could have led to a license suspension or penalty in Connecticut.

(3) At the hearing, the commissioner or a hearing officer designated by the commissioner may:

(A) Administer oaths;

(B) Issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses; and

(C) Admit all relevant evidence and documents, including notifications from participating states.

(4) Following a hearing under this subsection, the commissioner or a designated hearing officer may, based on the evidence, affirm, modify, or rescind the suspension of a license or the assessment of a penalty.

(5) A suspension of a license under chapter 490 is a civil suspension, and a decision of the commissioner or hearing officer under this section shall not be appealable.

Withdrawal From the Compact

Withdrawal of Connecticut from the compact, as authorized under Article VIII of the compact, shall be by an act or resolution of the General Assembly.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-192k — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 491 / Section 26-192k
Sec. 26-192k. Shellfish relay from restricted relay grounds. Tag identification information confidential. Code re harvest location.
Status: in_force

(b) All tag identification information regarding shellfish harvest locations shall be confidential, provided the harvester of the shellfish marks the tag with a unique code corresponding to the shellfish harvest location. The Department of Agriculture shall provide such harvester and the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection with a written code key detailing the harvest location and corresponding code to be used by the harvester.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-73 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-73
Sec. 26-73. Hunting on Sunday. Bow and arrow hunting of deer on private property.
Status: in_force

Applies to any game, whether protected or not, if not destroying crops; applies to private game keeper carrying gun to guard game preserve where intent to shoot other animals exists. 98 C. 712.

Conclusion that defendant “was guilty of having in his possession in the open air on Sunday implements for hunting” did not, in view of the judgment finding defendant guilty of violating section, show that defendant was found guilty of the nonexistent crime of possession rather than the actual crime of hunting. 2 Conn. Cir. Ct. 463.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-27a — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-27a
Sec. 26-27a. Junior licenses.
Status: in_force

(1) “Junior firearms hunting license” means a license issued for firearms hunting to persons between twelve and sixteen years of age;

(2) “Junior archery hunting license” means a license issued for archery hunting to persons between twelve and sixteen years of age;

(3) “Junior trapping license” means a license issued for trapping to persons under sixteen years of age.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-1 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-1
Sec. 26-1. Definitions.
Status: repealed

(1) “Animal” includes birds, quadrupeds, reptiles and amphibians.

(2) “Bait species” means all species of fish, frogs, crustaceans and insects listed as bait in the regulations issued by the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection.

(3) “Black bass” means smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) and largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides).

(4) Repealed.

(5) “Closed season” means that period of time during which hunting, trapping or fishing is prohibited for any species of wildlife.

(6) “Commercial fisherman” means any person, firm or corporation engaged in commercial fishing.

(7) “Commercial fishing” means taking or attempting to take any regulated species for commercial purposes or by the use of any commercial fishing gear.

(8) “Commercial fishing gear” means any equipment commonly used to take regulated species for commercial purposes including, but not limited to, lobster pots, otter trawls, beam trawls, balloon trawls, midwater trawls, sea scallop dredges, scoop nets, scap nets, seines, trap nets, fyke nets, crab traps, gill nets, trammel nets, set lines, long lines, hook and line if such fishing is conducted for commercial purposes, minnow seines, minnow traps, eel pots, fish pots, pound nets, throw nets or similar devices and any equipment listed as commercial fishing gear in regulations adopted by the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection.

(9) “Commercial hatchery” means an institution or place where legally acquired fish are held, hatched and reared for sale or where fish so acquired or hatched are reared or held for sale in waters which are under complete control of the owner.

(10) “Daily bag, catch or creel limit” means the quantity or number of wildlife allowed to be taken during the period from 12:01 a.m. to 12:00 midnight as provided by this chapter or by regulations made by the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection.

(11) “Grouse” includes ruffed grouse, partridge and spruce grouse.

(12) “Hunting” means pursuing, shooting, killing and capturing any bird, quadruped or reptile and attempting to pursue, shoot, kill and capture any bird, quadruped or reptile, whether such act results in taking or not, including any act of assistance to any other person in taking or attempting to take any such animal.

(13) “Quadruped” means any four-legged animal which is ferae naturae or wild by nature, although such animal may be enclosed and considered a pet or semidomesticated, but shall exclude purely domesticated animals.

(14) “Pickerel” means the chain pickerel (Esox niger), not the dwarf species referred to variously as the banded pickerel (Esox americanus), grass pike, grass pickerel, mud pike or brook pickerel.

(15) “Private waters” means a natural or artificial pond or lake to which the owner, not a corporation, partnership or voluntary association, has exclusive right of access, of which water supply all sources are located substantially within the property of the owner, to which fish do not have access from waters not under the control of such owner or from water stocked at the expense of the state, except that a natural or artificial pond five acres or less in extent may be owned by an individual, a corporation, partnership or voluntary association and, when meeting the other requirements of this subsection, such pond may be registered as private waters.

(16) “Regulated species” means the following species or species groups: Bait species, crustacea, finfish, horseshoe crabs, sea scallops, squid or whelk.

(17) “Seafood dealer” means (A) a person, firm or corporation, other than the ultimate consumer, who purchases, ships, consigns, transfers, transports, barters, accepts or packs any regulated species, except bait species directly from a commercial fisherman for resale, or (B) a commercial fisherman who sells, ships, consigns, transfers or barters his or her own catch of such species to anyone other than a seafood dealer.

(18) “Set line” means a line fastened between two points, to which is attached a number of smaller lines with hooks attached, but a single line not personally attended may constitute a set line.

(19) “Sport fishing” means taking or attempting to take any regulated species whether from salt, brackish or fresh water by any method other than by commercial methods specified by law and regulations of the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection for commercial purposes.

(20) “Taking” means shooting, pursuing, hunting, fishing, killing, capturing, trapping, snaring, hooking and netting any species of wildlife and attempting to shoot, pursue, hunt, fish, kill, capture, trap, snare, hook, net or catch any species of wildlife or any act of assistance to any other person in taking or attempting to take such wildlife whether or not such act results in the capture of any such wildlife.

(21) “Trapping” means pursuing, killing and capturing by use of any trap, snare, net or other device any bird or wild or domestic quadruped, excluding rats, mice, moles and reptiles, whether such act results in taking or not, including any act of assistance to any other person in taking or attempting to take any such animal by any such method.

(22) “Trout and salmon” includes brook trout or speckled trout, brown trout, rainbow trout, lake trout, Atlantic salmon, kokanee or sockeye salmon, coho salmon, chinook salmon or any hybrid of any two or more of these species.

(23) “Wildlife” means all species of invertebrates, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals which are ferae naturae or wild by nature.

Cited. 226 C. 265.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-193 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 491 / Section 26-193
Sec. 26-193. Natural oyster beds: Map on file.
Status: in_force

Only method of proving bed to be a natural oyster bed is by showing it to be within the limits designated. 62 C. 50, but see 66 C. 285. Effect of court's locating natural ground under former law. 89 C. 10.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-15a — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-15a
Sec. 26-15a. Appropriations to Bureau of Natural Resources. Federal aid. Annual report.
Status: in_force

(b) To the extent authorized by federal law or regulation, the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection shall supplement the funds appropriated to the department for fish and wildlife programs by taking full advantage of the annual apportionment made pursuant to the provisions of (1) Public Law 681, 81st Congress, entitled “An Act to Provide that the United States Shall Aid the States in Fish Restoration and Management Projects, and for Other Purposes”, approved August 9, 1950, and (2) the Act of Congress entitled “An Act to Provide that the United States Shall Aid the States in Wildlife Restoration Projects, and for Other Purposes”, approved September 2, 1937. On or before February first, annually, the department shall submit a report to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to appropriations and the budgets of state agencies, which sets forth, for the twelve-month period ending the preceding September thirtieth, the amount of such federal funds received by the department, the amount of such funds expended and the purposes for which such funds were expended.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-30 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-30
Sec. 26-30. Applications. Issuance of licenses.
Status: in_force

(b) Nonresident licenses shall be issued by any town clerk, an agent of such town clerk or an agent of the commissioner, except that nonresident trapping licenses shall be issued by the commissioner.

(c) Applications shall be made on forms furnished by the commissioner, containing such information as the commissioner may require, and any such application forms shall have printed thereon, “I declare under the penalties of false statement that the statements herein made by me are true and correct.” Any person who makes any material false statement on such application form shall be guilty of false statement and shall be subject to the penalties provided for false statement, and said offense shall be deemed to have been committed in the town in which such application is presented or received for processing.

(d) No application shall contain any material false statement.

(e) The town clerk, an agent of such town clerk or an agent of the commissioner shall, upon receipt of such application, correctly filled out and accompanied by the required fee, issue to such applicant the appropriate license. If such application is by mail, the town clerk shall mail such license to such applicant within five days from the receipt of the application and proper fee.

(f) The town clerk of any town may deputize agents in such town to issue firearms hunting, archery hunting, trapping and fishing licenses, or the combination thereof, provided he shall be solely responsible for compliance with the provisions of the statutes relating to the duties of the town clerk in connection with such licenses and the moneys received therefor.

(g) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may, upon application by persons on forms furnished by the commissioner and containing such information as the commissioner may require, license such persons as agents for the issuance of firearms hunting, archery hunting, trapping and fishing licenses, or the combination thereof. Upon the request of any agent licensed by the commissioner, the town clerk of the town in which such agent conducts business shall sell license forms to such agent at the regular license cost minus twenty-five cents for such agent's fee. Not later than the first Monday of each month, such agent shall remit to the town clerk from whom the license forms were purchased any license forms voided by such agent and two copies of all licenses sold by such agent during the preceding month. Upon the request of an agent, the town clerk shall reimburse such agent for any unused or voided license forms remitted to such town clerk.

(h) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may issue a group fishing license to any tax-exempt organization qualified under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as amended from time to time, for the purpose of conducting a group fishing event or events for persons: (1) With a service-related or other disability who receive services at a facility of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System, (2) who receive mental health or addiction services from: (A) The Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, (B) state-operated facilities, as defined in section 17a-458 , or (C) programs or facilities funded by the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, as provided for in sections 17a-468b , 17a-469 , 17a-673 and 17a-676 , (3) with intellectual disability who receive services from the Department of Developmental Services, as provided for in section 17a-217 , or from facilities licensed by the Department of Developmental Services, as provided for in section 17a-227 , (4) diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder who receive services from the Department of Social Services, or (5) receiving care from the Department of Children and Families, as provided for in section 17a-94 , or from programs or child-care facilities licensed pursuant to section 17a-145 or 17a-147 . Any such organization shall conduct not more than fifty such events, including marine and inland water events, in any calendar year and each such event shall be limited to not more than one hundred persons. Application for such a group fishing license shall be submitted once per calendar year on a form prescribed by the commissioner and with the necessary fee and shall provide such information as required by the commissioner. All fishing activities conducted pursuant to such group license shall be supervised by staff or volunteers of the organization conducting the event or events. Such staff or volunteers shall possess such group fishing license at the site of any such event or events. Each such staff member or volunteer shall have a license to fish. Such organization shall, not later than ten days after such group fishing event, report to the commissioner, on forms provided by the commissioner, information on the results of such event. Such information shall include, but not be limited to, the total: (A) Number of participants, (B) hours fished, (C) number of each species caught, and (D) number of each species not released. Such organization shall not charge a fee to any person that participates in any such group fishing event conducted pursuant to such group fishing license and any such group fishing event shall not be used by such organization as a fund raising event.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-25a — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-25a
Sec. 26-25a. Regulation of feeding of wildlife on state-owned property. Intentional feeding of potentially dangerous animals on private property. Prohibition. Regulations. More restrictive municipal ordinances.
Status: in_force

(A) “Intentionally feed” means to place, provide, give, expose, deposit, scatter or distribute any edible material or attractant with the intent of feeding, attracting or enticing potentially dangerous animals.

(B) “Potentially dangerous animal” means any of the following: (i) The felidae, including, but not limited to, bobcat; (ii) the canidae, including, but not limited to, coyote and fox; and (iii) the ursidae, including, but not limited to, black bear. “Potentially dangerous animal” does not include any: (I) Domestic cat or dog, or (II) animal under the care, custody or control of any zoo or wildlife facility.

(2) No person shall intentionally feed any potentially dangerous animal on any land that is not owned by the state.

(3) The provisions of this subsection shall not be construed to apply to: (A) Composting at facilities authorized pursuant to section 22a-208a or 22a-430 , provided best management practices are used to mitigate the attraction of any potentially dangerous animal, (B) small-scale composting operations, (C) the composting of agricultural waste, (D) the disposal of agricultural mortalities, or (E) agriculture, farming or aquaculture.

(4) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, to implement the provisions of this subsection.

(5) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 prohibiting or restricting the feeding of wildlife on state-owned property. Such regulations shall include, but not be limited to, procedures for designating areas subject to such prohibitions or restrictions. Any such designation shall be effective after public notice and a public comment period.

(b) Any conservation officer appointed pursuant to section 26-5 and any other officer authorized to serve criminal process may enforce the provisions of this section and any regulations adopted pursuant to this section. Any violation of this section or any such regulations shall be an infraction.

(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, any municipal ordinance that is more restrictive than the provisions of this section concerning the intentional feeding of wildlife on land that is not owned by the state shall not be preempted by the provisions of subsection (a) of this section.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-304 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 495 / Section 26-304
Sec. 26-304. Definitions.
Status: in_force

(1) “Department” means the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection;

(2) “Conserve” and “conservation” mean to use all methods and procedures necessary to maintain or increase the populations of any endangered or threatened species to the point at which the provisions of sections 22a-2 , 23-5c , 23-74 , 23-75 , 26-40c , 26-40d , 26-40f and 26-303 to 26-315 , inclusive, are no longer necessary, including, but not limited to, all activities associated with resources management, such as research, census, monitoring, regulation and law enforcement, habitat acquisition, restoration and maintenance, propagation, live trapping, transplantation and regulated taking;

(3) “Wildlife” means all species of invertebrates, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals which are wild by nature and parts thereof;

(4) “Plants” means any member of the plant kingdom and parts thereof;

(5) “Native” means any species indigenous to this state;

(6) “Species” means any species, subspecies, or variety of animal or plant, and includes any distinct population segment of any animal or plant;

(7) “Endangered species” means any native species documented by biological research and inventory to be in danger of extirpation throughout all or a significant portion of its range within the state and to have no more than five occurrences in the state, and any species determined to be an “endangered species” pursuant to the federal Endangered Species Act;

(8) “Threatened species” means any native species documented by biological research and inventory to be likely to become an endangered species within the foreseeable future throughout all or a significant portion of its range within the state and to have no more than nine occurrences in the state, and any species determined to be a “threatened species” pursuant to the federal Endangered Species Act, except for such species determined to be endangered by the commissioner in accordance with section 26-306 ;

(9) “Species of special concern” means any native plant species or any native nonharvested wildlife species documented by scientific research and inventory to have a naturally restricted range or habitat in the state, to be at a low population level, to be in such high demand by man that its unregulated taking would be detrimental to the conservation of its populations or has been extirpated from the state;

(10) “Endangered Species Act” means the Endangered Species Act of 1973, Public Law 93-205, as amended from time to time;

(11) “Take” or “taking” mean to capture, collect, destroy, harm, hunt, kill, pursue, shoot, trap, snare, net, possess, transport, remove, sell or offer for sale, export or import or to attempt to engage in any such conduct or any act of assistance to any other person in taking or attempting to take such native wildlife and native plants whether or not such act results in capture or collection;

(12) “Essential habitat” means the geographic area which contains those physical or biological features which are identifiable and have been demonstrated as being decisive to the continued existence of any endangered or threatened species and includes, but is not limited to, significant areas used for courtship, mating, and other reproductive activities, rearing of young, feeding and shelter of endangered and threatened species;

(13) “Destruction or adverse modification of essential habitat” means any activity that significantly alters, pollutes, impairs, degrades, damages, destroys or otherwise reduces the ability of the habitat to sustain populations of endangered or threatened species;

(14) “Threaten the continued existence” means to engage in any action that reduces appreciably the likelihood of the survival and recovery of an endangered or threatened species in the wild by reducing the reproduction, numbers, or distribution of such species;

(15) “Occurrence” means a population of a species breeding and existing within the same ecological community and capable or potentially capable of interbreeding with other members of that species within that community.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-235 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 491 / Section 26-235
Sec. 26-235. Taking of clams. Recreational harvest limit. Penalties. Defacing or removal of sign.
Status: in_force

(b) The common council of any consolidated town and city and the selectmen of any other town may determine the quantity of clams to be taken therein by a person during one day and may prohibit, for a period not exceeding one year, the taking of clams from any waters or beaches they may designate within the territorial limits of such town, if they deem such prohibition necessary for the protection of the natural clam areas, by posting notices on such designated territorial limits stating that the taking of clams within such areas is prohibited.

(c) Any person who violates any provision of subsection (a) or (b) of this section shall have committed an infraction.

(d) Any person who takes clams from an area closed and posted against the taking of clams by the Department of Agriculture or from an area closed by license issuance or by order of a local health department shall be fined not less than seventy-five dollars or more than one thousand dollars or three times the market value of any clams taken, based on the quantity and type involved in the violation, if such amount is greater than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than one year.

(e) Any person who defaces or removes a sign posted by the Department of Agriculture, in accordance with the provisions of section 26-192e , shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than six months.

Cited. 231 C. 418.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-167 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-167
Sec. 26-167. Stealing fish, lobsters or equipment. Penalty.
Status: in_force

Intent of statute is to make fish or lobsters which have been caught the subject of larceny and it is not essential to prove the identity of the owner of the stolen property. 37 CS 809.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-72 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-72
Sec. 26-72. Regulation of trapping of fur-bearing animals.
Status: in_force

See Sec. 22-12b re licensing of fur breeders and issuance of special import or export permits for disease control.

Cited. 33 CS 510.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-107f — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-107f
Sec. 26-107f. Program for the conservation of nonharvested wildlife.
Status: in_force

(b) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall establish a conservation program for species not traditionally harvested which shall include provisions for the following: Resource inventory, habitat conservation, monitoring of environmental impacts, conservation of endangered and threatened species, wildlife recreation management, wildlife conservation education, private landowner assistance, urban wildlife conservation, problem animal management and scientific research, planning, administration and development.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-127 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-127
Sec. 26-127. Conservation of bait species. Daily limit.
Status: in_force

(b) No person shall take or land, on a daily basis, two hundred pounds or more of any of the following bait species: (1) Tidewater silverside, (2) Atlantic silverside, (3) sand lance or sand eels, or (4) bay anchovy.

(c) Any person who violates any provision of subsection (b) of this section shall have committed a separate infraction for each such violation.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-28c — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-28c
Sec. 26-28c. Marine waters fishing license fees.
Status: in_force

(b) Any nonresident residing in one of the New England states or the state of New York may procure a marine waters fishing license for the same fee or fees as a resident of this state if he or she is a resident of a state the laws of which allow the same privilege to residents of this state.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-142b — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-142b
Sec. 26-142b. Resident-held and nonresident-held principal commercial fishing license, general commercial fishing license and commercial lobster pot fishing license. Restrictions on reissuance, transfer and renewal.
Status: in_force

(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may reissue an active principal commercial fishing license, general commercial fishing license or commercial lobster pot fishing license in the event the license holder is temporarily incapacitated and unable to operate a vessel or perform other necessary functions associated with commercial fishing or in the event a license holder is unable to conduct commercial fishing due to exigencies related to medical care of an immediate family member. Such temporary license may only be issued to a member of such license holder's immediate family or to a member of such license holder's crew, as designated by such license holder, for the duration of such license holder's incapacity or exigencies related to medical care of an immediate family member of such license holder. Such temporary license shall be subject to the provisions of section 26-142a . Landings during the period of such temporary license reissue may be used to satisfy the requirements for license transfer in subsection (c) of this section, provided the licensee met all such requirements for transfer at the time of such temporary reissue.

(c) The commissioner may authorize the transfer of an active principal commercial fishing license, general commercial fishing license or commercial lobster pot fishing license, issued pursuant to subsection (f) of section 26-142a , provided: (1) For purposes of an active resident-held principal or general commercial fishing license or commercial lobster pot fishing license: (A) The person receiving the license in such transfer is a resident of this state, and (B) the person transferring the license held the license and landed regulated species or owned a vessel that landed regulated species under the privilege of a quota-managed species endorsement associated with the license in at least five of the eight calendar years preceding the transfer request and such landings were reported to the commissioner, pursuant to section 26-157b , for not less than thirty fishing days in each year, or (2) for purposes of an active nonresident-held principal or general commercial fishing license or commercial lobster pot fishing license: The person transferring the license held the license and landed regulated species or owned a vessel that landed regulated species under the privilege of a quota-managed species endorsement associated with the license in at least five of the eight calendar years preceding the transfer request and such landings were reported to the commissioner, pursuant to section 26-157b , for not less than thirty fishing days in each year. Such landings shall be verified by seafood dealer reports submitted pursuant to section 26-157b . The recipient of a transferred commercial lobster pot fishing license or principal commercial fishing license shall be limited to the number of lobster pots allocated to such license, except a transferee who currently holds a commercial lobster pot fishing license, issued pursuant to subsection (f) of section 26-142a , shall be limited to the number of pots allocated to such person's currently held commercial lobster pot fishing license or principal commercial fishing license or to the transferred license, whichever is greater. The length of any commercial fishing vessel used by the recipient of a transferred license to fish with a trawl net in the waters of this state shall be not more than twenty per cent greater than the length of the largest vessel used by the person transferring the license during such qualifying period.

(d) (1) In the event of the death of the holder of an active principal commercial fishing license, general commercial fishing license or commercial lobster pot fishing license, the commissioner may authorize the transfer of such license pursuant to subsection (c) of this section, for a period of two years from the date of death of such license holder.

(2) If the deceased license holder held such license for a period of less than five complete calendar years, the commissioner may authorize the transfer of such license (A) subject to the provisions of this section, and (B) provided the deceased license holder landed regulated species or owned a vessel that landed regulated species under the privilege of a quota-managed species endorsement associated with the license in each calendar year during which the deceased license holder held the license for six months or longer, and (C) provided such landings were reported to the commissioner by the deceased license holder, pursuant to section 26-157b , for not less than thirty fishing days in each year.

(e) Upon transfer of a license, the original license holder shall become ineligible to obtain a renewal of that license. Such original license holder may acquire a new license through a subsequent license transfer.

(f) A transfer of a license under this section shall not be made while a commercial fishery license, registration or vessel permit held by the transferor or transferee is under suspension and a transfer shall not be authorized for any transferee who has had a commercial fishery license, registration or vessel permit revoked or suspended within the preceding twelve months.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-31c — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-31c
Sec. 26-31c. Hunting or fishing guide services. Registration. Fee. Exception. Limit on customers in vessel. Regulations. Fine.
Status: in_force

(b) The provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall not apply to any user, operator or crew of any vessel registered as a charter boat, party boat or head boat in accordance with the provisions of section 26-142a .

(c) Any person who provides fishing guide services that entail the use of a vessel while taking or landing marine species shall not have more than two customers in such vessel at any given time.

(d) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, to implement the provisions of this section.

(e) Any person who violates the provisions of this section shall have committed an infraction and be fined not more than ninety dollars.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-192e — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 491 / Section 26-192e
Sec. 26-192e. (Formerly Sec. 19a-98). Classification of coastal waters, shores and tidal flats for the taking of shellfish.
Status: in_force

(b) The department shall, by written order, promulgate definite bounds of the area or areas closed to shellfishing when classified as conditional-closed, conditionally restricted, restricted or prohibited. Such order shall become effective when (1) the closure classification is published in a newspaper having circulation in towns, cities and boroughs in which or adjacent to which any such area is situated; (2) the classification is filed in the offices of the clerk and the director of health in each such town, city or borough, and (3) signs are posted at points on or near every such classified area.

(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, when the Commissioner of Agriculture, after consultation with the Commissioner of Public Health, finds that tidal flats, shores or coastal waters which may contain shellfish are so contaminated or polluted that a health emergency exists, he may close such area for the duration of such emergency by giving notice of such emergency closure (1) in writing to the municipal or district health authority, and (2) to the general public by publication in a newspaper having general circulation in the town, city or borough within which such area lies. Such notice shall state when the closing shall take effect.

(d) No person shall take or harvest shellfish from areas classified as conditional-closed, restricted, conditionally restricted or prohibited pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of this section or closed because of a health emergency pursuant to subsection (c) of this section or from areas or parts of areas where shellfish have been transplanted or relayed except in accordance with the terms and conditions of a license issued pursuant to section 26-192c or section 26-192h . The Department of Agriculture may delegate its authority for the classification of coastal waters, shores, and tidal flats for the taking of shellfish pursuant to this section to other state agencies and local agencies.

See Sec. 26-192i for definition of “shellfish”.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-225 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 491 / Section 26-225
Sec. 26-225. Stealing oysters.
Status: in_force

Evidence not admissible to prove that ground designated by commissioners after 1881 was natural ground. 62 C. 47. History of law. 79 C. 702. Cited. 112 C. 214.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-3 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-3
Sec. 26-3. Powers and duties of commissioner.
Status: in_force

See Sec. 26-65 re commissioner's authority to regulate hunting.

See Sec. 26-72 re regulation of trapping of fur-bearing animals.

See Sec. 26-107f re conservation of nonharvested wildlife.

Cited. 148 C. 621.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-91 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-91
Sec. 26-91. Taking of migratory game birds. Plan by municipality, homeowner association or nonprofit land-holding organization to take Canada geese.
Status: in_force

(b) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may authorize any municipality, homeowner association or nonprofit land-holding organization approved by the commissioner under the provisions of this section to take resident Canada geese at any time, other than Sundays, or place using any method consistent with professional wildlife management principles. Any such municipality, homeowner association or nonprofit land-holding organization shall submit to the commissioner, for the commissioner's review and approval, a plan that describes the extent and degree of the nuisance or ecological damage and the proposed method of taking. Such plan shall include prohibitions against feeding of such geese and requirements that landscaping in the area is managed in a way to be less hospitable to geese, utilizing native plantings. Prior to the implementation of such plan, the municipality, homeowner association or nonprofit land-holding organization shall provide notice of such plan to abutting landowners of such place where the plan will be implemented. Such plan shall not authorize the use of a snare.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-157i — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-157i
Sec. 26-157i. Economic assistance program for resident commercial lobster fishermen. Establishment. Regulations.
Status: in_force

(b) Not later than April 1, 2007, the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, to implement the economic assistance program established in subsection (a) of this section for any resident commercial lobster fisherman who held a Connecticut license to take lobsters in 2006 and who held a lobster trap allocation issued by the commissioner, or who has received a license transfer with a trap allocation, and who, not later than January 24, 2006, reported the landing of lobsters between January 1, 2004, and December 31, 2005, as determined by the commissioner, based on reports submitted pursuant to section 26-157b . The regulations shall include, but not be limited to, provisions for direct payment to such lobsterman based on the contribution such lobsterman's lobster catch made to the total qualifying catch of all qualifying lobster fishermen from Long Island Sound with any gear between January 1, 2004, and December 31, 2005, provided, in cases in which more than one fisherman has reported on the same catch report form, catches are attributed and payments made to the lead license holder indicated on the form.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-86a — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-86a
Sec. 26-86a. Game management. Deer hunting; permitted weapons, locations, bag limits. Consent forms; permits, selection process.
Status: in_force

(b) Any person who takes a deer without a permit shall be fined not less than two hundred dollars or more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not less than thirty days or more than six months or shall be both fined and imprisoned, for the first offense, and for each subsequent offense shall be fined not less than two hundred dollars or more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than one year or shall be both fined and imprisoned.

See Sec. 26-66(22) re the wearing of fluorescent orange clothing.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-99 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-99
Sec. 26-99. Establishment of fish and game refuges.
Status: in_force

See Sec. 26-69 re wildlife management practices.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-47 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-47
Sec. 26-47. Permits to take wildlife damaging crops. License to control nuisance wildlife. Permits to take wildlife damaging agricultural crops, livestock or apiaries. Conditions. Means. Methods. Times. Disposal of wildlife taken.
Status: in_force

(b) (1) No person shall engage in the business of controlling nuisance wildlife, other than rats or mice, without obtaining a license from the commissioner. Such license shall be valid for a period of two years and may be renewed in accordance with a schedule established by the commissioner. The fee for such license shall be two hundred fifty dollars. The controlling of nuisance wildlife at the direction of the commissioner shall not constitute engaging in the business of controlling nuisance wildlife for the purposes of this section. No person shall be licensed under this subsection unless the person: (A) Provides evidence, satisfactory to the commissioner, that the person has completed training which included instruction in site evaluation, methods of nonlethal and approved lethal resolution of common nuisance wildlife problems, techniques to prevent reoccurrence of such problems and humane capture, handling and euthanasia of nuisance wildlife and instruction in methods of nonlethal resolution of common nuisance wildlife problems, including, but not limited to, training regarding frightening devices, repellants, one-way door exclusion and other exclusion methods, habitat modification and live-trapping and releasing and other methods as the commissioner may deem appropriate; and (B) is a resident of this state or of a state that does not prohibit residents of this state from being licensed as nuisance wildlife control operators because of lack of residency.

(2) The licensure requirements shall apply to municipal employees who engage in the control or handling of animals, including, but not limited to, animal control officers, except that no license shall be required of such employees for the emergency control of rabies. Notwithstanding the requirements of this subsection, the commissioner shall waive the licensure fee for such employees. The commissioner shall provide to such municipal employees, without charge, the training required for licensure under this subsection. A license held by a municipal employee shall be noncommercial, nontransferable and conditional upon municipal employment.

(3) The commissioner shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, which (A) define the scope and methods for controlling nuisance wildlife provided such regulations shall incorporate the recommendations of the 1993 report of the American Veterinary Medical Association panel on euthanasia and further provided such regulations may provide for the use of specific alternatives to such recommendations only in specified circumstances where use of a method of killing approved by such association would involve an imminent threat to human health or safety and only if such alternatives are designed to kill the animal as quickly and painlessly as practicable while protecting human health and safety, and (B) establish criteria and procedures for issuance of a license.

(4) Except as otherwise provided in regulations adopted under this section, no person licensed under this subsection may kill any animal by any method which does not conform to the recommendations of the 1993 report of the American Veterinary Medical Association panel on euthanasia. No person may advertise any services relating to humane capture or relocation of wildlife unless all methods employed in such services conform to such regulations.

(5) Any person licensed under this subsection shall provide all clients with a written statement approved by the commissioner regarding approved lethal and nonlethal options, as provided in this subsection, which are available to the client for resolution of common nuisance problems. If a written statement cannot be delivered to the client prior to services being rendered, the licensee shall leave the statement at the job site or other location arranged with the client.

(6) Each person licensed under this subsection shall submit a report to the commissioner, on such date as the commissioner may determine, that specifies the means utilized in each case of nuisance wildlife control service provided in the preceding calendar year including any method used in those cases where an animal was killed. Any information included in such report which identifies a client of such person or the client's street address may be released by the commissioner only pursuant to an investigation related to enforcement of this section.

(c) Any person who violates any provision of this section, or any condition under which a permit or license is issued, shall be guilty of a class D misdemeanor; and any permit or license issued to such person, and all other such permits or licenses issued to any other person for such property, shall be revoked by the commissioner and the right to obtain such permit or license shall remain suspended for such period of time as the commissioner determines.

(d) Any permit or license issued under this section shall not authorize the taking of deer.

(e) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may issue permits for the taking of wildlife that threatens or causes damage to agricultural crops, livestock or apiaries, if: (1) The owner or lessee of the subject property utilized reasonable nonlethal efforts to protect such crops, apiaries or livestock, including, but not limited to, electric fencing, animal guardians or fortified enclosed structures, and (2) an investigation by Department of Energy and Environmental Protection personnel determines that the taking of such wildlife is necessary to protect agricultural crops, apiaries or livestock from excessive damage and that reasonable nonlethal efforts to protect such crops, apiaries or livestock have not been or are not likely to be successful in preventing further damage. Any such permit issued pursuant to this subsection shall specify the means, methods and times for which such take is allowed and shall only be issued by the commissioner to the: (A) Owner of the subject property on which such excessive damage occurred, (B) agent of such owner, or (C) lessee of such subject property, provided such lessee has the written permission of such owner to take wildlife. Any wildlife taken pursuant to this section shall be disposed of as directed by the department. The provisions of this subsection shall not be construed to authorize the taking of any federally protected species.

See Sec. 26-82 re regulation of killing of deer.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-266 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 492 / Section 26-266
Sec. 26-266. Shellfisheries in Branford. Grants. Requirements and prohibitions of grants.
Status: in_force

(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, any owner of a utility line or public use structure that impacts a designated area shall pay to the designee or grantee the costs of removing or relocating any shellfish. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to prohibit the state, the shellfish commission, the board of selectmen or any designee or grantee from recovering damages incurred by the state, the shellfish commission, the board of selectmen, the designee or grantee caused by the installation, construction or presence of such utility line or public use structure.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-296 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 493 / Section 26-296
Sec. 26-296. Joint regulation of specific fisheries.
Status: in_force

(b) The states consenting to this amendment agree that any two or more of them may designate the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission as a joint regulatory agency with such powers as they may jointly confer from time to time for the regulation of the fishing operations of the citizens and vessels of such designating states with respect to specific fisheries in which such states have a common interest. The representatives of such states on the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission shall constitute a separate section of such commission for the exercise of the additional powers so granted provided that the states so acting shall appropriate additional funds for this purpose. The creation of such section as a joint regulatory agency shall not deprive the states participating therein of any of their privileges or powers or responsibilities in the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission under the general compact.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-196 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 491 / Section 26-196
Sec. 26-196. Determination of disputed boundaries in other cases.
Status: in_force

The divisional line must be of adjoining grounds and the map must be one of absolute accuracy; these are jurisdictional questions. 51 C. 188. Cited. 74 C. 374.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-16 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-16
Sec. 26-16. Public hunting and fishing lands and waters.
Status: in_force

History of section. 148 C. 618. Clear intent board could acquire, by purchase, whatever land or water was needed for hunting and fishing purposes and ingress and egress. Id., 619. Construction of statute to restrict power to acquisition of access to nonnavigable inland lakes, ponds, streams and hunting grounds, as distinguished from access to navigable streams and rivers and the coast line, would thwart obvious purpose. Id., 620. Parking of automobiles held incidental to use of property as access. Id., 621. No formality prescribed for approval by Governor. Id., 623.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-25c — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-25c
Sec. 26-25c. Release of lighter-than-air balloons restricted. Penalty.
Status: in_force

(b) Any violation of subsection (a) of this section shall be an infraction.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-306 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 495 / Section 26-306
Sec. 26-306. Regulations. Determination of whether any native species is endangered, threatened or of special concern. List. Essential habitats identified.
Status: in_force

(b) Not later than June 22, 1990, the commissioner shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, listing native wildlife and native plants that he has determined to be endangered or threatened species or species of special concern. Not later than June 22, 1991, the commissioner shall so adopt regulations to identify, where biologically feasible, essential habitats for endangered and threatened species.

(c) The commissioner shall adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 to establish criteria to be included in a petition pursuant to section 4-174 to add or remove a species from the list of endangered or threatened species or species of special concern or to add or remove an area identified as an essential habitat for such species.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-61 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-61
Sec. 26-61. Suspension of license, registration or permit. Restoration. Fines.
Status: in_force

(b) Upon the conviction of any person for any violation of any provision of this chapter, any regulation issued by the commissioner or any regulation issued by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service under the provisions of section 26-91 or any of the provisions of section 53-204 , 53-205 , 53a-109 or 53a-115 to 53a-117 , inclusive, or upon the forfeiture of any bond taken upon any complaint, or upon the payment of any fine for an infraction pursuant to section 51-164n , a license, registration or permit issued pursuant to this chapter to such person by the commissioner and the right to obtain any such license, registration or permit may, for a first violation or infraction, be suspended by the commissioner for not more than one year, and such permit, license or registration, together with the flag or other insignia issued by the commissioner, shall be surrendered to the commissioner or his authorized agent, except that for a violation of any provision of section 26-85 such permit or license or the privilege to obtain such permit or license shall be suspended for not less than one year nor more than two years. For a second violation of any of said laws or regulations the commissioner may suspend any such permit, license or registration and the right to obtain any such permit, license or registration for not more than two years, except that for a second violation of any provision of section 26-85 the suspension period shall be not less than two years nor more than five years; for a third violation or infraction the commissioner may suspend any such permit, license or registration and the right to obtain any such permit, license or registration for not more than three years, except that for a third violation of any provision of section 26-85 the suspension period shall be not less than five years and may be indefinite; and for a fourth violation or infraction within a period of ten years, the commissioner may suspend any such permit, license or registration and the right to obtain any such permit, license or registration for an indefinite period. Any person cited for violation of any provision of this chapter, any regulation issued by the commissioner or any regulation issued by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service under the provisions of section 26-91 or any of the provisions of section 53-204 , 53-205 , 53a-109 , 53a-115 , 53a-116 or 53a-117 who fails to appear in court or fails to pay or plea to an issued infraction, as required, and for whom an arrest warrant is issued for such violation, shall have his or her license suspended by the commissioner until such fine is paid or otherwise adjudicated in court. Upon the conviction of any person or upon the payment of any fine for an infraction pursuant to section 51-164n , for a violation of any statute or any regulation issued by the commissioner concerning hunting in proximity to buildings occupied by persons or domestic animals or used for storage of flammable or combustible materials or any statute or regulation regarding shooting towards persons, buildings or animals, the commissioner shall suspend any hunting license issued pursuant to this chapter to such person, or such person's right to obtain any such license, for a period of one year, and such license shall be surrendered to the commissioner or his authorized agent; for a second such conviction or upon the payment of a fine for a second such infraction within a period of five years, the commissioner shall suspend any such license for a period of not less than two years.

(c) Any person who, under any provision of this section, has a permit, license or registration voided or suspended or has a privilege to obtain any one or more of such permits, licenses or registrations voided or suspended may apply to the commissioner for the restoration or reinstatement of one or more of such permits, licenses or registrations or his privilege to obtain any such permit, license or registration, and the commissioner may hear such application and may restore or reinstate one or more of such permits, licenses or registrations or the privilege to obtain any such permit, license or registration.

(d) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (2) of this subsection, any person who procures any permit, license or registration to which he is not entitled or engages in fishing, hunting or trapping during the period when his permit, license or registration is voided or suspended shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars or more than two hundred dollars and all fishing, hunting or trapping permits, licenses or registrations issued to such person shall be suspended for an indefinite period.

(2) Any person who procures any permit, license or registration to which he is not entitled or engages in fishing, hunting or trapping during the period when such permit, license or registration and the privilege to obtain such a permit, license or registration are suspended for an indefinite period shall be guilty of a class D misdemeanor, and, for a further violation in case of such indefinite suspension, shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.

(e) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any person who violates any regulation adopted pursuant to section 26-16 . Any person who violates such regulations shall have committed an infraction and may pay the fine by mail or plead not guilty under the provisions of section 51-164n .

(f) Any person whose hunting license is under suspension for a hunting safety violation as identified in section 26-31 shall successfully complete a remedial hunter education course as required by said section prior to any restoration or reinstatement by the commissioner of his privilege to obtain a hunting license.

(g) Any person whose privilege to hunt, trap or guide has been suspended or revoked in any jurisdiction within the United States or Canada shall be prohibited from purchasing a hunting, fishing or trapping license in this state during such period of revocation or suspension provided the offense for which such privilege was suspended or revoked is substantially similar to an offense described in sections 26-62 , 26-74 , 26-82 to 26-90 , inclusive, 53-204 and 53-205 or the regulations adopted under section 26-66 regarding trapping, hunting before or after legal hours, hunting within five hundred feet of occupied buildings or discharging firearms toward people or across roadways. If such person has previously purchased a license to hunt, fish or trap in this state, the commissioner, after notice and hearing in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, may suspend such license for the same period as determined in the other jurisdiction or may revoke such license if such privilege was revoked in the other jurisdiction. Such person shall surrender such license to the commissioner or the authorized agent of the commissioner. No person shall possess a license which has been suspended or revoked under this section.

Cited. 23 CA 272.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-192 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 491 / Section 26-192
Sec. 26-192. Exclusive jurisdiction of state.
Status: in_force

All lands southerly of this line are in the exclusive jurisdiction of commissioners. 52 C. 61; 62 C. 50; 66 C. 289.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-100 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-100
Sec. 26-100. Posting notices.
Status: in_force

See Sec. 26-21 re penalty for destruction of notice or proclamation.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-119 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-119
Sec. 26-119. Use of explosives or poisons.
Status: in_force

See Sec. 22a-66z re permits for use of pesticides in state waters.

See Sec. 26-22 re measures to control aquatic plants and animals.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-17a — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-17a
Sec. 26-17a. Acquisition and preservation of tidal wetlands.
Status: in_force

(b) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may, by purchase, exchange, condemnation, gift, devise, lease or otherwise, acquire tidal wetlands or any easements, interests or rights therein, or enter into covenants and agreements with owners of such tidal wetlands to maintain, improve, protect, limit the future use of or otherwise conserve such tidal wetlands. The commissioner may also enter into leases with an option to buy tidal wetlands, provided the term of any such lease shall not exceed ten years.

(c) The commissioner is authorized to take land or any interests therein by right of eminent domain in the manner provided in section 48-12 for the purposes for which he is authorized to acquire land under the provisions of subsection (b) of this section. All of the owners of different tracts of land which are included in the same tidal wetlands area may be joined in the same action.

(d) When the municipal property tax on any tidal wetlands is unpaid for a period of six years, the tax collector of the municipality in which such tidal wetlands are located shall notify the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection. Said commissioner may direct the municipality to take title to such tidal wetlands by foreclosure of its tax liens and, upon payment to the municipality of a sum equal to the amount of the tax liens foreclosed and the expenses incurred by it in the foreclosure action, the municipality shall convey title of said wetlands to the state.

See Sec. 22a-29 et seq. re regulation of wetlands.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-27 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-27
Sec. 26-27. Licenses required for hunting, trapping and fishing. Exceptions.
Status: in_force

(b) Any landowner who has a domiciliary residence in this state, such landowner's spouse or lineal descendants may hunt, trap or fish on land owned by such landowner or on land leased by such landowner and on which such landowner is actually domiciled, which land is not used for club, fishing or hunting purposes, without a license, subject to the provisions of this chapter.

(c) No fishing license shall be required for any person who is rowing a boat or operating the motor of a boat from which other persons are taking or attempting to take fish.

(d) The taking of fish and bait species as herein provided shall be regarded as sport fishing and the taking or landing of such species in the inland waters or marine district by commercial methods for commercial purposes shall be governed by other provisions of this chapter.

(e) No fishing license shall be required for any resident of the state who is participating in a fishing derby authorized in writing by the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection provided (1) no fees are charged for such derby, (2) such derby has a duration of one day or less, and (3) such derby is sponsored by a nonprofit civic service organization. Such organization shall be limited to one derby in any calendar year.

(f) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall designate one day in each calendar year when no license shall be required for sport fishing.

(g) No fishing license shall be required for any person who is fishing as a passenger on a party or charter fishing vessel registered under section 26-142a and operating solely in the marine district.

(h) No fishing license shall be required for any person who participates in a fishing event conducted by an organization that receives a group fishing license, as provided in subsection (h) of section 26-30 , provided any person who participates in such group fishing event shall be subject to all other provisions of the general statutes and the regulations of Connecticut state agencies that relate to fishing.

(i) No fishing license shall be required for any student who attends a secondary school located in this state when such student is participating in a fishing event or field trip authorized, in writing, by the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection provided (1) such fishing event or field trip is conducted by such secondary school, (2) the purpose of such fishing event or field trip is to provide instruction in fishing techniques, and (3) the fishing event or field trip is a component of a course of instruction conducted by such secondary school. Any secondary school that seeks to conduct such a fishing event or field trip shall apply for authorization on a form prescribed by the commissioner and shall provide such information as required by the commissioner.

See Sec. 26-99 re establishment of fish and game refuges.

Cited. 124 C. 280.

Cited. 2 Conn. Cir. Ct. 461.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-291a — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 492 / Section 26-291a
Sec. 26-291a. Taking of clams and oysters in Stonington.
Status: in_force

(b) Said board of selectmen may designate special officers for the enforcement of this section, whose compensation shall be determined by the board of selectmen. All moneys collected under the provisions of this section shall be paid to the board of selectmen and used by it for protection and propagation of escallops, oysters and clams and other shellfish in the waters of the town of Stonington.

(c) Any person who violates any provision of this section or any regulation adopted pursuant to this section shall be fined not more than two hundred fifty dollars, and upon conviction the court may order that a permit shall not be issued to such person to take clams or oysters from the waters of the town of Stonington for one year.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-246 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 492 / Section 26-246
Sec. 26-246. Designation of disputed lines in local jurisdiction.
Status: in_force

The divisional line must be of adjoining grounds and the map must be absolutely accurate; these are jurisdictional questions. 51 C. 188. Admissibility of evidence. 74 C. 374.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-70 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-70
Sec. 26-70. Regulation of hunting of wild birds, wild mammals, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates. Permit for administration of chemical or biological substance to free-ranging wildlife. Requirements.
Status: in_force

(b) No person may administer any chemical or biological substance, including, but not limited to, drugs, pesticides, vaccines or immunocontraceptives or make any physical alteration or affix any device to any free-ranging wildlife without first obtaining a permit from the commissioner. The applicant for such permit shall (1) first obtain any necessary federal permits, and (2) provide to the commissioner a written proposal describing the chemical or biological substance application, physical alteration or device attachment protocol, the credentials of each person who will administer the procedure, the purpose or intent of the procedure and an assessment of any resulting physiological, behavioral and environmental impacts. No state permit is required for wildlife management programs of the department performed in accordance with professional wildlife management principles.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-310 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 495 / Section 26-310
Sec. 26-310. Actions by state agencies which affect endangered or threatened species or species of special concern or essential habitats of such species.
Status: in_force

(b) Each state agency responsible for the primary recommendation or initiation of actions on land or in aquatic habitats which may significantly affect the environment, as defined in section 22a-1c , shall ensure that such actions are consistent with the provisions of sections 26-303 to 26-312 , inclusive, and shall take all reasonable measures to mitigate any adverse impacts of such actions on endangered or threatened species or essential habitat. The Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall consider the consistency of such proposed actions with the provision of said sections 26-303 to 26-312 , inclusive, in determining whether or not an environmental impact evaluation prepared pursuant to section 22a-1b satisfies the requirements of sections 22a-1a to 22a-1h , inclusive, and regulations adopted pursuant to said sections.

(c) If the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, in consultation with the commissioner, determines that a proposed action violates subsections (a) or (b) of this section and there are no feasible and prudent alternatives the state agency may apply to the commissioner for an exemption. The commissioner may grant an exemption after considering the following factors: (1) The agency did not make an irreversible or irretrievable commitment of resources after initiation of consultation with the department that forecloses the opportunity for formulating and implementing feasible and prudent alternatives, (2) the benefits of the action clearly outweigh the benefits of alternative courses of action, consistent with conserving the species or its essential habitat, and such action is in the public interest, (3) the action is of regional or state-wide significance, and (4) the agency plans to take reasonable mitigation and enhancement measures necessary and appropriate to minimize the adverse impacts of the action upon the species or essential habitat, including, but not limited to, live propagation, transplantation, and habitat acquisition and improvement.

(d) If the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, in consultation with the commissioner, determines that a proposed action would not appreciably reduce the likelihood of the survival or recovery of an endangered or threatened species, but would result in the incidental taking of such species, the commissioner shall provide the state agency with a written statement that: (1) Specifies the impact of such incidental taking on the species; (2) specifies feasible and prudent measures and alternatives that shall be implemented as part of the proposed project in order to ensure that the action does not appreciably reduce the likelihood of the recovery of the species; and (3) sets forth terms and conditions including, but not limited to, reporting requirements to ensure compliance with this subsection. Any taking that is in compliance with the measures and alternatives specified pursuant to this subsection shall not be prohibited by sections 26-303 to 26-312 , inclusive.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-309 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 495 / Section 26-309
Sec. 26-309. State acquisition of essential habitat. Management.
Status: in_force

(b) The commissioner may enter into agreements with federal agencies, or political subdivisions of this state or other states, or with individuals or private organizations for administration and management of any program established and utilized for the conservation of endangered and threatened species and for management of any area identified as essential habitat for such species pursuant to section 26-306 .
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-22 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-22
Sec. 26-22. Control of aquatic plants and animals.
Status: in_force

See Sec. 22a-339g re control of nonnative invasive plant species.

See Sec. 26-119 re use of explosives or poisons in waters of the state.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-49 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-49
Sec. 26-49. Training of hunting dogs. Permits for liberation of artificially propagated birds.
Status: in_force

(b) Said commissioner may authorize the establishment and operation of regulated hunting dog-training areas and may issue to any person holding a private shooting preserve permit, as provided for under section 26-48 , or to any established game breeder holding a game breeder's license, as provided for under section 26-40 , or to any person holding a commercial kennel license, as provided for under section 22-342 , a permit, which shall expire on June thirtieth next after issuance and for which a fee of eighteen dollars shall be charged, authorizing the liberation of artificially propagated game birds and pigeons, legally possessed and suitably tagged with tags furnished by the commissioner, for which a reasonable fee may be charged, and the subsequent shooting of such game birds and pigeons by persons authorized by any such permittee, in connection with the training of hunting dogs only, at any time, including Sunday; provided permission to shoot on Sunday on the area specified in the permit shall have the approval of the proper authorities of the town or towns in which such dog-training area is located and shall apply only to the period from sunrise to sunset.

(c) A hunting license shall be required of all persons authorized by any such permittee to train any dog on any such regulated dog-training area, whether or not birds are to be shot.

(d) The commissioner may, by regulation, govern and prescribe the size and the location of any such dog-training area, the number of birds that may be released in ratio to the number of participants or the number of dogs being trained, the method of liberation and retrapping of pen-raised birds, the species, sex and condition of such birds that may be liberated and shot, the method of tagging such birds, the posting of such area and the method of reporting all such activities.

(e) Any such permit may be revoked at any time by the commissioner for a violation of any provision of this section or any regulation issued by the commissioner under the provisions of this section, for a period of not more than one year.

(f) Any person who violates any provision of this section or any regulation issued by the commissioner hereunder shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-195 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 491 / Section 26-195
Sec. 26-195. State ground; determination of disputed boundaries.
Status: in_force

One who earns living from natural bed proper party to bring application. 89 C. 7. Cited. 231 C. 418.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-46 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-46
Sec. 26-46. Reciprocal fishing privileges.
Status: in_force

(b) If and when the state of New York, the state of Massachusetts, the state of New Hampshire, the state of Maine or the state of Rhode Island enacts a similar law granting reciprocal privileges to residents of this state, any nonresident who holds a marine waters fishing license issued by one of said states having such reciprocal privileges may fish in the marine district or land marine species in Connecticut and shall not be required to purchase a Connecticut nonresident marine waters fishing license. Such nonresidents shall be subject to all other provisions of the statutes and the regulations of the commissioner relating to fishing in the marine district.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-27b — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-27b
Sec. 26-27b. Stamps required for hunting or taking of migratory birds, resident birds or resident game birds. Connecticut Migratory Bird Conservation Stamp. Connecticut Resident Game Bird Conservation Stamp.
Status: in_force

(b) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall provide for the design, production and procurement of the mandatory Connecticut Migratory Bird Conservation Stamp and the mandatory Connecticut Resident Game Bird Conservation Stamp and shall, by regulations adopted in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, provide for the issuance of each stamp. Stamps shall be sold at a price determined by the commissioner, provided the price of a mandatory Connecticut Migratory Bird Conservation Stamp shall not exceed seventeen dollars and the price of a mandatory Connecticut Resident Game Bird Conservation Stamp shall not exceed twenty-eight dollars. The commissioner shall establish an additional voluntary migratory bird and resident game bird conservation donation of not less than two dollars that shall be deposited in the migratory bird and resident game bird conservation account established under section 26-27c . Any agent issuing such stamps may retain a fee established by the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection pursuant to section 26-3c for each stamp sold and shall remit the balance to the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-183 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-183
Sec. 26-183. Use of nets in Long Island Sound adjacent to Stratford.
Status: in_force

Former Subsec. (b) cited. 9 CA 228.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-55 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-55
Sec. 26-55. Permit for importing, introducing into state, possessing or liberating live fish, wild birds, wild mammals, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates. Regulations. Exemptions. Seizure, relocation and disposal. Penalties.
Status: in_force

(b) Any such fish, bird, mammal, reptile, amphibian or invertebrate illegally imported into the state or illegally possessed therein may be seized by any representative of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and may be relocated or disposed of as determined by the commissioner. The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection shall issue a bill to the owner or person in illegal possession of such animal for all costs of seizure, care, maintenance, relocation or disposal for such animal.

(c) Except as provided in subsection (e) of this section, any person who violates any provision of this section or any regulation adopted by the commissioner pursuant to this section shall be assessed a civil penalty not to exceed one thousand dollars, to be fixed by the court, for each offense. Each violation shall be a separate and distinct offense. In the case of a continuing violation, each day's continuance thereof shall be deemed to be a separate and distinct offense. The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may request the Attorney General to institute an action in Superior Court to recover such civil penalty and any amounts owed pursuant to a bill issued in accordance with subsection (b) of this section and for an order providing such equitable and injunctive relief as the court deems appropriate.

(d) Any person who wilfully violates any provision of this section or any regulation adopted by the commissioner pursuant to this section shall be guilty of a class C misdemeanor.

(e) Any person who imports, introduces into this state, possesses or liberates live fish or aquatic nuisance invertebrates, in violation of the provisions of this section or any regulation adopted pursuant to this section, shall have committed an infraction and be fined not more than eighty-five dollars. The importation, possession or liberation of each live fish or aquatic nuisance invertebrate shall be a separate and distinct offense. In the event of a continuing violation, each day of continuance shall be a separate and distinct offense.

Cited. 235 C. 426.

Cited. 34 CA 741; judgment reversed in part, see 235 C. 426.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-192d — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 491 / Section 26-192d
Sec. 26-192d. (Formerly Sec. 19a-97). Appeals from orders, suspension or revocation of a license.
Status: in_force

See Sec. 26-192i for definition of “shellfish”.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-198 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 491 / Section 26-198
Sec. 26-198. Fees for recording or copying.
Status: in_force

See Sec. 7-34a re fees received by town clerk.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-58 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-58
Sec. 26-58. Taxidermist's license.
Status: in_force

(b) Any person who violates any provision of subsection (a) of this section shall be fined not more than two hundred fifty dollars.

(c) The license of any person to practice taxidermy may be revoked or suspended at any time for cause by the commissioner.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-241 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 492 / Section 26-241
Sec. 26-241. Name of owner to appear on stakes, buoys and markers. Buoy specifications.
Status: in_force

(b) A buoy marking oyster, clam or mussel beds pursuant to subsection (a) of this section or section 26-240 shall be constructed with rigid polystyrene foam or similar buoyant material. Such buoy shall support a vertical pole extending not less than ten feet above the top of such buoy and shall be tethered by a rope or line to an anchoring device of sufficient weight to maintain the position of the buoy. The vertical pole shall not exceed three and one-half inches in diameter at any point and shall not be constructed of a metallic material. A durable waterproof flag not less than six inches in height and eight inches in length shall be affixed to the top of the pole.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-75 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-75
Sec. 26-75. Silencer on firearms.
Status: in_force

See Sec. 53a-217e re negligent hunting offenses.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-224a — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 491 / Section 26-224a
Sec. 26-224a. Depositing of shellfish in tidal waters. Regulations.
Status: in_force

(b) The commissioner shall have reasonable access to vessels, commercial fishing gear and docks and wharfs used in shellfish operations to determine compliance with the regulations adopted pursuant to this section.

(c) On and after the effective date of regulations adopted pursuant to this section, no person shall deposit shellfish in the tidal waters of this state except in accordance with such regulations.

(d) Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-81 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-81
Sec. 26-81. Penalty.
Status: in_force

See Sec. 53a-217e re negligent hunting offenses.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-302 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 494 / Section 26-302
Sec. 26-302. Compact for state membership in the Connecticut River Atlantic Salmon Commission.
Status: in_force

CONNECTICUT RIVER ATLANTIC SALMON COMPACT

ARTICLE I

The party States, for the purpose of promoting the restoration of Anadromous Atlantic salmon, hereinafter referred to as Atlantic salmon, to the Connecticut River basin by the development of a regional program for stocking, protection, management, research and regulation, do hereby establish the Connecticut River Atlantic Salmon Commission.

ARTICLE II

Each state joining herein shall appoint two representatives to said commission. One shall be the executive officer of the administrative agency of such state charged with the management of the fisheries resources to which this compact pertains, or his designee. The second shall be a member of the public who shall have a knowledge of and interest in Atlantic salmon, to be appointed by the governor for a term of three years. The director of the northeast region of the Fish and Wildlife Service, United States Department of the Interior or his designee and the director of the northeast region of the National Marine Fisheries Service, United States Department of Commerce or his designee shall be members of said commission. The commission shall be a body corporate with the powers and duties set forth herein.

ARTICLE III

The duty of said commission shall be to make inquiry and ascertain from time to time such methods, practices, circumstances and conditions as may be disclosed for bringing about the restoration of Atlantic salmon to the Connecticut River and its tributaries.

To promote the restoration, preservation and protection of Atlantic salmon in the Connecticut River basin the commission may draft and recommend to the governors of the various signatory states legislation to accomplish this end. The commission shall, more than sixty days prior to any regular meeting of the legislature of any signatory state, present to the governor of the state its recommendations relating to proposed enactments to be made by the legislature of the state in furthering the intents and purposes of this compact.

The commission shall have the power to recommend to the states party hereto stocking programs, management procedures and research projects and when two or more states party hereto shall jointly stock waters or undertake cooperative management or research, the commission shall act as the coordinating agency. The commission using all available means, shall encourage acquisition by the signatory states of river bank, river bed and access thereto.

The commission shall consult with and advise the pertinent administrative agencies in the signatory states with regard to other anadromous species and their potential impact or the potential impact of sport fisheries and commercial fisheries for other anadromous species on the restoration of Atlantic salmon to the Connecticut River basin.

In the interest of developing a sound program of Atlantic salmon management, the commission shall promulgate regulations governing Atlantic salmon fishing in the main stem of the Connecticut River in all four signatory states as hereinafter provided. Such regulations may: (1) Establish the open and closed seasons for Atlantic salmon which may vary by river section, (2) establish hours, days of period during the open season when fishing for Atlantic salmon shall not be permitted in designated areas, (3) prescribe the legal methods of taking Atlantic salmon including the type of gear such as gaffs, landing nets or tailers which may be used to assist in landing such fish, (4) establish the minimum legal length for Atlantic salmon and (5) establish the daily creel limit, the season creel limit and the possession limit for Atlantic salmon. The commission shall recommend, review and issue comments on such regulations as may be promulgated by the signatory states governing Atlantic salmon fishing in tributary streams. The states of Connecticut and Massachusetts agree to make available for brook stock, from fish taken in the fish passage facilities at the Rainbow Reservoir Dam and the Holyoke Power Company Dam, such numbers of adult Atlantic salmon as the commission deems necessary to carry out the Atlantic salmon restoration program.

The commission shall have the power to issue a Connecticut River Basin Atlantic Salmon License and the sale of such licenses shall be handled by the individual signatory states or their authorized agents. The individual signatory states shall be accountable to the commission for all such licenses and the moneys received therefrom. The initial fee for such licenses shall be determined by majority vote of the commission but shall not exceed the maximum resident angling license fee of the signatory states except that the commission may upon a determination of need and with the unanimous approval of its membership increase such license and issuing fee. The individual signatory states or their issuing agents may retain a recording fee of up to fifty cents for each license issued. Forms for such license shall be provided to the signatory states by the commission. Such license shall be a legal prerequisite for any person including minors fishing for or possessing Atlantic salmon in the waters or on the shores of the Connecticut River and all of its tributaries. In addition to said Connecticut River Basin Atlantic Salmon License, all persons, except those specifically exempted because of age, disability or other limitation as determined by statute or regulations of the individual signatory states shall be required to possess a valid resident or nonresident sport fishing license issued by the state in which such person is fishing. The commission shall recognize that in certain waters or sections of waters a daily rod permit may also be required, such daily rod permit to be issued by the state in which such waters or sections of waters are located, however, the signatory states shall not, by fee, distinguish between residents and nonresidents. The authority to limit the numbers of persons fishing for Atlantic salmon in certain tributaries or sections of certain tributaries shall remain the prerogative of the individual signatory states.

The respective police agencies of the signatory states shall have the authority to enforce all of the regulations and license requirements of the commission any place in the Connecticut River basin.

The commission shall have the authority to accept gifts, state grants and federal funds. The commission shall have the authority to expend money from fees collected for Connecticut River Basin Atlantic Salmon Licenses or from such other funds available to the commission to finance the cost of stocking, management or research carried on by signatory states to further the purposes of this compact. Such funds shall be in the form of direct grants to the agency of such state charged with the management of the fisheries resources and may be up to one hundred per cent of the cost of projects approved by a majority vote of the commission.

ARTICLE IV

The commission shall elect from its number a chairman and a vice chairman and at its pleasure may remove such officers. Said commission shall adopt rules and regulations for the conduct of its business. At such time as funds are available to the commission the commission may establish and maintain an office for the transaction of its business. The commission may meet at any time or place but must meet at least semiannually.

The commission shall have the authority to expend money from available commission funds to reimburse its membership for necessary travel expenses.

ARTICLE V

At such time as funds are available the commission may employ and discharge at its pleasure such personnel as may be required to carry out the provisions of this compact and shall fix and determine their duties, qualifications and compensation.

ARTICLE VI

There shall be established a technical committee to consist of one fishery biologist from each of the signatory states, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service to act in an advisory capacity to the commission. The technical committee shall have the authority to request employees of the signatory states, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service or others who have special fields of expertise to act as special advisors to the committee. At such time as funds are available the commission may reimburse technical committee members and special advisors for necessary travel expenses.

ARTICLE VII

No action shall be taken by the commission in regard to its general affairs except by affirmative vote of a majority of members present at any meeting, provided there is a quorum. A quorum shall consist of a simple majority of all members of the commission. No action shall be taken at any meeting of the commission unless each signatory state is represented at any such meeting. No recommendation or allotment of grant funds shall be made by the commission except by the affirmative vote of a majority of the members.

ARTICLE VIII

Continued absence of representation or of any representative on the commission from any party hereto shall be brought to the attention of the governor thereof.

ARTICLE IX

The states signatory hereto agree to make an annual appropriation to the initial support of the commission in the amount of one thousand dollars for each of the first three years that this compact is in effect.

ARTICLE X

The commission shall keep accurate accounts of all receipts and disbursements and shall report to the governor and the legislature of each state party to this compact on or before the tenth day of January of each year, setting forth in detail the transactions conducted by it during the twelve months preceding January first of that year. The Comptroller of the state of Connecticut is hereby authorized and empowered from time to time to examine the accounts and books of the commission, including its receipts, disbursements, grants and such other items referring to its financial standing as such Comptroller may deem proper and to report the results of such examination to the governor of said state.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-23 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-23
Sec. 26-23. Abandoned or discarded fishing or hunting implements. Derelict lobster gear.
Status: in_force

(b) Any derelict lobster gear may be seized by an authorized representative of the commissioner. The commissioner, or the commissioner's authorized representative, shall attempt to notify the last known licensee of such derelict lobster gear not later than thirty days following such seizure. In the event: (1) There is no identifying marker on such seized derelict lobster gear, (2) the owner of such seized derelict lobster gear cannot be identified, or (3) the last known licensee of such seized derelict lobster gear fails to claim the seized derelict lobster gear, the commissioner may dispose of such seized derelict lobster gear or authorize the disposal of such seized derelict lobster gear. For the purpose of this subsection, “derelict lobster gear” means any lobster pot, trap, warp or live car found in Connecticut waters that does not have the current Connecticut commercial license number branded on the pot, trap, warp or live car in accordance with section 26-157a and that is not attached to the annual trap tag required by regulations adopted pursuant to section 26-157c for the current trap tag year cycle or the trap tag from the previous year's trap tag year cycle.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-28 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-28
Sec. 26-28. Hunting, trapping and sport fishing license fees.
Status: in_force

(b) Any nonresident residing in one of the New England states or the state of New York may procure a license to hunt or to fish or to hunt and fish for the same fee or fees as a resident of this state if such nonresident is a resident of a state the laws of which allow the same privilege to residents of this state.

(c) The fee for a group fishing license, as described in subsection (h) of section 26-30 , shall be one hundred twenty-five dollars.

(d) (1) The fee charged for any firearms hunting, archery hunting, trapping or sport fishing license that is issued to any Connecticut resident who is sixteen or seventeen years of age shall be equal to fifty per cent of the fee provided for such license in subsection (a) of this section, rounded to the next highest dollar.

(2) The fee charged pursuant to section 26-27b , 26-48a , 26-86a or 26-86c for any firearms hunting, archery hunting, trapping or sport fishing permit, tag or stamp that is issued to any Connecticut resident who is less than eighteen years of age shall be equal to fifty per cent of the fee provided for such permit, tag or stamp in said sections, rounded to the next highest dollar.

(e) In addition to the calendar day designated pursuant to subsection (f) of section 26-27 , the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may designate two additional days in each calendar year on which a one-day license for sport fishing may be issued free of charge. The commissioner may make such one-day license available to all members of the public or to all members of an age group designated by said commissioner.

(f) From time to time and for the purpose of increasing participation, the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection with the concurrence of the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, may reduce, but not completely waive, the fee or cost for any license, permit, tag or stamp, or combination thereof, as provided for in this section or section 26-27b , 26-48a , 26-86a or 26-86c . Any such reduction shall: (1) Be for a portion of a calendar year, (2) remain in effect only during the calendar year in which such reduction is made, and (3) be made only if such reduction is provided to all members of the public, to all members of a certain age group, or to individuals who, in such calendar year, successfully complete a course of instruction in fishing techniques, as provided for in section 26-31a or a conservation education course of instruction, as provided for in subsection (a) of section 26-31 .
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-192f — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 491 / Section 26-192f
Sec. 26-192f. (Formerly Sec. 19a-99). Penalties.
Status: in_force

See Sec. 26-192i for definition of “shellfish”.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-48 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-48
Sec. 26-48. Private shooting preserves; permits; regulations.
Status: in_force

See Sec. 26-73 prohibiting hunting on Sunday.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-38 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-38
Sec. 26-38. Hunting by minors.
Status: in_force

(b) Any person under sixteen years of age may trap, provided such person has a license to trap and a certificate of competency issued under subsection (a) of section 26-31 .
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-239 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 492 / Section 26-239
Sec. 26-239. Certain grants of oyster, clam and mussel grounds valid.
Status: in_force

No presumption as to the location of town lines; legislature may place control of fisheries in navigable waters at its pleasure. 48 C. 452. Cited. 89 C. 7.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-78 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-78
Sec. 26-78. Sale of birds, quadrupeds, reptiles or amphibians.
Status: in_force

(b) (1) The provisions of subsection (a) of this section and subdivision (2) of this subsection shall not be construed to prohibit the use of red-eared slider turtles for any educational or research-related purpose by any scientific or educational institution or the buying, selling or exchanging, or possessing with the intent to sell or exchange of any red-eared slider turtle with distinctive aberrant color patterns, including albino or amelanistic specimens, provided (A) any seller of such a red-eared slider turtle with distinctive aberrant color patterns shall retain a record of the name and address of the purchaser of such turtle on a form prescribed by the Commissioner of Agriculture, and (B) no such turtle exempted under the provisions of this subsection shall be released upon the lands or into the waters of this state.

(2) No person shall import any red-eared slider turtle into this state.

(3) No person shall release any red-eared slider turtle upon the lands or into the waters of this state.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-226 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 491 / Section 26-226
Sec. 26-226. Injury to enclosure.
Status: in_force

History of law. 79 C. 701.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-237b — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 491 / Section 26-237b
Sec. 26-237b. Shellfish Fund.
Status: in_force

(b) The fund shall be used by the Commissioner of Agriculture for the program established under section 26-237a including, but not limited to, the support of an oyster shell recycling program administered by the Department of Agriculture in partnership with any other person.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-157d — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-157d
Sec. 26-157d. Lobster restoration program. Regulations.
Status: in_force

(b) Subject to the provisions of subsections (c) and (d) of this section, each person engaged in commercial fishing who lands, marks and releases lobsters and who reports such landing, marking and releasing pursuant to section 26-157b shall be compensated, if funds become available, at average market value, as determined by the commissioner, for each lobster released.

(c) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may select a contractor, in accordance with the provisions of the general statutes and department procedures, to implement the provisions of the program established pursuant to subsection (a) of this section. The department shall not be responsible for the training, insurance or supervision of employees of the contractor. The contractor shall be compensated by the department on a per trip basis and not per lobster. Employees of the contractor shall accompany persons engaged in commercial fishing who participate in the program and only such employees shall mark each lobster. Such persons engaged in commercial fishing shall not mark the lobsters and shall not be employed by the contractor to mark lobsters for fishing trips during which such persons are participating in the program.

(d) The program established pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall (1) be limited to state residents licensed to participate in commercial fishing by the department pursuant to this title, (2) require that fishermen and employees of the contractor sign a statement certifying the number of lobsters landed, marked and released for purposes of the program for each trip, (3) require such fishermen and contractor to collect and submit to the department all information deemed necessary by the department to verify compliance with the program, (4) require that all lobsters landed, marked and released for purposes of the program be allocated to the fishermen as catch for purposes of any other lobster management program under the jurisdiction of the state or federal government, and (5) provide that each participant in the program be selected based on the area fished, seasonal nature of such fishing and volume of landings by such participant prior to such participant's application to the program.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-154 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-154
Sec. 26-154. Restricted waters near mouth of stream or estuary. Use of otter trawls in estuaries.
Status: in_force

(b) No person may use any otter trawl in any waters shoreward of the following described line: From the southern extremity of Stonington Point, Stonington; to the east end of the Stonington inner breakwater; follow the breakwater; from the west end of the breakwater to Wamphassuc Point. From the southern extremity of Dodge's Island, Stonington to the southern extremity of Ender's Island, Stonington; straight line to the southern extremity of Mason Point, Stonington; from the southerly extremity of Ram Point, Stonington straight line to the southern extremity of Morgan Point, Groton; from the entrance to Venetian Harbor, Groton to the southern extremity of Mumford Point, Groton; from the western extremity of Bushy Point Beach, Groton to the southern extremity of Avery Point, Groton; from the western extremity of Eastern Point, Groton, to the Old New London Harbor Lighthouse, New London; from the southern extremity of Magonk Point, Waterford; to the southern extremity of Millstone Point, Waterford; to the one fathom contour of Niantic Bay, thence to the southwest extremity of Black Point, East Lyme straight line to Buoy C-5 at Seal Rock, East Lyme; thence to the southern extremity of Lands End, East Lyme; thence to the mouth of the Three Mile River, Old Lyme; straight line to Hatchett Point, Old Lyme; straight line from Hatchett Point, Old Lyme to Hawk's Nest Beach Point, Old Lyme. From the eastern extremity of Griswold Point, Old Lyme to Buoy 2 Old Saybrook Channel Entrance to Buoy 1 Old Saybrook; thence to the southern extremity of Old Saybrook Point. From Cornfield Point, Old Saybrook to the mouth of the Oyster River, Old Saybrook; straight line to Chapman Point, Old Lyme; straight line to Old Kelsey Point, Westbrook, from Money Point, Westbrook to Lobster Rock, Westbrook; from Lobster Rock, Westbrook to Buoy 3 Westbrook mouth of the Menunketesuck River; from Buoy 3 Westbrook to Kelsey Point, Clinton; to Hammonasset Point, Madison. From Hogshead Point, Madison to the southern extremity of Grass Island, Guilford; to the southern extremity of Mulberry Point, Guilford; to the southern extremity of Vineyard Point, Guilford; to the southern extremity of Outer Island, Branford; to the southern extremity of Haycock Point, Branford; from Haycock Point, Branford to the northeast extremity of Spectacle Island, Branford; from the southwest extremity of Spectacle Island, Branford to the flag pole at Mansfield Point, Branford; from the flag pole at Mansfield Point, Branford to the southern extremity of South End, East Haven; to the southern extremity of Morgan Point, East Haven to the southwest ledge on the east breakwater, New Haven; to the Luddington Rock breakwater to the west breakwater light in West Haven; to Oyster River Point, West Haven; to the southern extremity of Merwin Point, Milford to the southern extremity of Pond Point, Milford; to Welch's Point, Milford; to Buoy 7 Milford Outer Harbor; from Buoy 7 Milford Outer Harbor to Buoy 5 to the northwest corner of Charles Island, Milford; from the northwest corner of Charles Island, Milford to the southwest corner of Charles Island, Milford; to the south end of the outer breakwater at the Housatonic River to the southern extremity of Stratford Point, Stratford and Point No Point, Stratford. From Point No Point, Stratford to the southerly end of the east breakwater at Pleasure Beach, Bridgeport; to the south end of the west breakwater at Seaside Park, Bridgeport; to Buoy 4 Black Rock Harbor, Bridgeport. From Buoy 4 Black Rock Harbor, Bridgeport to Pine Creek Point, Fairfield; from Pine Creek Point, Fairfield to Buoy 4 Southport Harbor, Fairfield; from Buoy 4 to the southern extremity of Frost Point, Westport; to the southern extremity of Sherwood Point, Westport; to the southern point of Cedar Point, Westport; to Buoy 1 Georges Rock, Westport; to Buoy 2 Cockenoe Shoal; to Buoy 24 Westport to Buoy 24-B Norwalk; to Buoy 3 Darien Five Mile River Entrance; to the Fish Island Buoy, Darien; to Long Neck Point, Darien. From Long Neck Point, Darien to Buoy 2 Cove Rocks, Stamford; to the southeast extremity of Shippan Point, Stamford; from the southwest extremity of Shippan Point, Stamford to the east end of the breakwater, Stamford Harbor; from the west end of the breakwater, Stamford Harbor to Buoy C-1 Greenwich South Reef; to Buoy 3 Greenwich Harbor Entrance; to the northeast extremity of Great Captain's Island, Greenwich; from the southwest extremity of Great Captain's Island, Greenwich to Byram Point.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-6 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-6
Sec. 26-6. Powers and duties of conservation officers and patrolmen.
Status: in_force

(b) Conservation officers, special conservation officers and patrolmen may, without warrant, arrest any person for any violation of any of the provisions set forth in subsection (a) of this section, and any full-time conservation officer shall, in the performance of his duties in any part of the state, have the same powers to enforce such laws as do policemen or constables in their respective jurisdictions. Any full-time conservation officer shall, incident to a lawful arrest while enforcing such laws in the performance of his duties in any part of the state, have the same powers with respect to criminal matters and the enforcement of the law relating thereto as policemen or constables have in their respective jurisdictions.

(c) Any conservation officer, special conservation officer or patrolman may, anywhere within the boundaries of the state, examine the contents of any boat, ship, automobile or other vehicle, box, locker, basket, creel, crate, game bag or game coat or other package in which he has probable cause to believe that any fish, crustacean, bird or quadruped is being kept, in violation of any said statutory provisions or any regulation issued by the commissioner, or any regulation issued by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service as provided by section 26-91 , and to ascertain whether any provision of any law or any regulation for the protection of any fish, crustacean, bird or quadruped has been or is being violated, and shall have the same authority as police officers to obtain and execute search warrants as provided for in sections 54-33a , 54-33b and 54-33c .

(d) Any conservation officer, special conservation officer or patrolman may be appointed a special policeman under the provisions of section 29-18 .

(e) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection is authorized to assign one or more conservation officers to patrol and inspect the buildings, lands and waters owned by The White Memorial Foundation, Incorporated, located in the towns of Litchfield and Morris and, in addition to their powers as conservation officers, such officers may be appointed special policemen under the provisions of section 29-18 .

(f) Each conservation officer, special conservation officer or patrolman shall be sworn to the faithful performance of his duties.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-157c — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-157c
Sec. 26-157c. Regulations governing the taking and possession of lobsters. Regulations implementing the lobster trap allocation buy-back program.
Status: in_force

(b) Not later than April 1, 2007, the commissioner may adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, to implement the lobster trap allocation buy-back program established pursuant to section 26-157h . Such regulations shall include, but not be limited to, provisions for a payment of fifteen dollars for each allocated lobster trap permanently retired from the lobster fishery. Such regulations shall be limited to the buy-back of lobster trap allocations of resident commercial lobster fishermen holding lobster trap allocations issued by the commissioner and who have reported lobster landings between January 1, 1999, and December 31, 2005, as determined by the commissioner, based on reports submitted pursuant to section 26-157b , or who have received license transfers with trap allocations, and shall not require the buy-back of lobster traps. For purposes of this subsection, “lobster trap” means lobster pot.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-169 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-169
Sec. 26-169. Nets and seines prohibited in Darien, Stamford and Greenwich.
Status: in_force

Cited. 318 U.S. 150.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-292b — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 492 / Section 26-292b
Sec. 26-292b. Hand-harvesting horseshoe crabs in the town of Stratford. Prohibition. Violation.
Status: in_force

(b) Any person who violates the provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall have committed an infraction.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-237d — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 491 / Section 26-237d
Sec. 26-237d. Municipal collection of sea water samples for shellfish harvest water classification.
Status: in_force

(b) Samples collected by a municipality shall be collected and processed in accordance with the National Shellfish Sanitation Program Model Ordinance, as amended from time to time. Such samples shall be processed by a laboratory certified pursuant to said ordinance. The analysis of a sample processed in a laboratory other than a Department of Agriculture laboratory shall be transmitted directly to said department's Bureau of Aquaculture and to the municipality that submitted the sample.

(c) The municipality may, but shall not be required to, assist the Department of Agriculture in sample collection in post rainfall conditions, spill events or routine sampling requirements. The Department of Agriculture shall accept all sample data analysis from samples collected by municipalities pursuant to this section and said department shall include such data analysis in any data base, report, file, calculation or process used by said department to determine or report water quality classification or reclassification.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-48a — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-48a
Sec. 26-48a. Management of salmon, trout and turkey. Issuance of permits, tags or stamps.
Status: in_force

(b) Such permits, tags or stamps shall be issued to qualified applicants by any town clerk. Application for such permits, tags or stamps shall be on such form and require of the applicant such information as the commissioner may prescribe. The commissioner may adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 authorizing a town clerk to retain part of any fee paid for a permit, tag or stamp issued by such town clerk pursuant to this section, provided the amount retained shall not be less than fifty cents.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-65 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-65
Sec. 26-65. Commissioner authorized to regulate hunting. Landowner permission required for hunting on private land.
Status: in_force

(b) No person may engage in hunting on private land without the permission of the owner of such land.

See Sec. 53a-217e re negligent hunting offenses.

Cited. 3 Conn. Cir. Ct. 417.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-67c — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-67c
Sec. 26-67c. Complaints re hunting in proximity to certain areas. Hearing. Records to be kept by law enforcement officials. Report to General Assembly.
Status: in_force

(b) The chief law enforcement official for each municipality, or his designee, shall maintain a record of all complaints received by such official in each calendar year regarding any potential hazard to public safety related to any hunting activity and shall submit such record to the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection annually. Such record shall be maintained separately from all other records of complaints received by such official. After an investigation of any such complaint, if the chief law enforcement official determines that a particular hunting activity in a particular location poses a hazard to public safety, he shall submit a written report of such determination to the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection.

(c) On or before February 1, 1995, and annually thereafter, the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall submit a report to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to the environment which sets forth for the preceding year ending December thirty-first the number of complaints received and investigations conducted along with the action taken.

See Sec. 53a-217e re negligent hunting offenses.

By implementing procedure for dealing with local safety concerns, the state has given department the ultimate decision-making authority; municipal ordinances are thus preempted. 46 CS 588.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-80b — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-80b
Sec. 26-80b. Sale or use of computer software or service to remotely hunt animals or birds prohibited. Penalty.
Status: in_force

(b) Any person who violates subsection (a) of this section shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-292d — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 492 / Section 26-292d
Sec. 26-292d. Hand-harvesting of horseshoe crabs or eggs. Prohibition. Exception. Fine. Enforcement.
Status: in_force

(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may authorize the hand-harvesting of horseshoe crabs by permit for educational or scientific purposes provided the commissioner determines that such harvesting will not cause harm to the horseshoe crab population in this state.

(c) Any person who violates the provisions of this section shall be fined twenty-five dollars for each specimen taken in violation of this section.

(d) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall enforce the provisions of this section.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-224 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 491 / Section 26-224
Sec. 26-224. Deposit of injurious substances in tidal waters or on oyster ground. Penalty.
Status: in_force

Cases appear to recognize that state has control of extent to which navigable waters may be used for sewage disposal. 112 C. 216.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-3b — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-3b
Sec. 26-3b. Rental, sale, exchange or transfer of real property and buildings in the custody or control of the commissioner. Right of first refusal.
Status: in_force

(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of the general statutes or of any regulations of any state agency, if the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection determines that it would be in the interest of the state, he may, subject to the approval of the State Properties Review Board and the Governor, sell, exchange or otherwise transfer the state's interests in houses or buildings in the custody and control of said commissioner and land accompanying any such house or building, provided no house, building or accompanying land shall be sold, exchanged or any interest therein transferred for less than its fair market value as determined by the commissioner. Said commissioner may, in the name of the state, execute deeds, contracts or other documents for such purposes. The commissioner shall ensure that any land sold under this section shall be subject to a deed restriction preventing further subdivision. The commissioner may require further conservation restrictions as part of such sale to prevent or limit other activities including, but not limited to, tree cutting or construction of additional structures. All moneys from any such sale, exchange or transfer of any interest pursuant to this section shall be used by the commissioner to carry out the purposes of the recreation and natural heritage trust program established under chapter 453.

(c) The commissioner shall grant a right of first refusal regarding the purchase of any land offered for sale under subsection (b) of this section to any person who has provided notice of interest in such right to the commissioner under this subsection and who provides evidence satisfactory to the commissioner that (1) such person is the husband or wife, parent, grandparent, sibling, child or grandchild of (A) a person who held title to the land in fee immediately prior to the state's taking title provided the state acquired such title on or after January 1, 1969, and prior to January 1, 1975, and (B) a person who owns land contiguous to the land being offered for sale, or (2) such person (A) is the husband or wife, parent, grandparent, sibling, child or grandchild of a person who held title to the land immediately prior to the state's taking title provided the state acquired such title on or after January 1, 1969, and prior to January 1, 1975, and (B) owns land contiguous to the land being offered for sale. Notice of interest in such right shall be in writing and shall provide an address to which notice of an offer for sale may be sent and shall further provide any information the commissioner deems relevant to any determination required of him under this subsection. If he finds that such notice is complete, the commissioner shall send notice to such person, by certified mail, prior to offering such land for sale to any other person under subsection (b) of this section. Such right shall be exercised not later than thirty days after the date that notice of an offer for sale is received. In the event that more than one notice of interest is filed with the commissioner, the person who provided the first notice deemed complete by the commissioner shall be given the right of first refusal.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-82 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-82
Sec. 26-82. Killing of deer regulated. Damage permit. Jacklight permit. Penalties. Plan by homeowner association, municipality or nonprofit land-holding organization to take deer.
Status: in_force

(b) Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be fined not less than two hundred dollars or more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not less than thirty days or more than six months, or shall be both fined and imprisoned, for the first offense, and for each subsequent offense shall be fined not less than two hundred dollars or more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than one year, or shall be both fined and imprisoned.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-42 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-42
Sec. 26-42. Licensing of raw fur dealers. Inspection. Regulations.
Status: in_force

(b) The commissioner may adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 concerning the buying and selling of raw furs. Such regulations may establish (1) procedures for recording and reporting transactions involving raw furs, and (2) tagging requirements for buying and selling raw furs.

(c) Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be fined not more than two hundred fifty dollars.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-308 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 495 / Section 26-308
Sec. 26-308. Treatment of species not listed as endangered or threatened as endangered or threatened species.
Status: in_force

(b) The regulations may include a provision to allow a person to conduct an activity which affects a species that resembles an endangered or threatened species if the person can demonstrate to the commissioner that the activity does not affect the endangered or threatened species.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-40a — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-40a
Sec. 26-40a. Possession of potentially dangerous animal. Exemptions. Seizure, relocation and disposal. Penalties.
Status: in_force

(1) The felidae, including, but not limited to, the lion, leopard, cheetah, jaguar, ocelot, jaguarundi cat, puma, lynx and bobcat;

(2) The canidae, including, but not limited to, the wolf, and coyote;

(3) The ursidae, including, but not limited to, the black bear, grizzly bear and brown bear; and

(4) The hominidae, including, but not limited to, the gorilla, chimpanzee and orangutan.

(b) A primate that weighs less than thirty-five pounds at maturity and that was imported or possessed by a person in this state prior to October 1, 2010, shall not be considered a potentially dangerous animal pursuant to this section.

(c) Any such animal illegally possessed may be ordered seized and may be relocated or disposed of as determined by the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection. The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection shall issue a bill to the owner or person in illegal possession of such potentially dangerous animal for all costs of seizure, care, maintenance, relocation or disposal of such animal. Additionally, any person who violates any provision of this section shall be assessed a civil penalty not to exceed two thousand dollars, to be fixed by the court, for each offense. Each violation shall be a separate and distinct offense and in the case of a continuing violation, each day's continuance thereof shall be deemed to be a separate and distinct offense. The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may request the Attorney General to institute an action in Superior Court to recover such penalty and any amounts owed pursuant to a bill issued in accordance with this section and for an order providing such equitable and injunctive relief as the court deems appropriate.

(d) The provisions of this section shall not apply to municipal parks, public nonprofit aquaria or zoos, accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums or the Zoological Association of America, nature centers, museums, or exhibitors licensed or registered with the United States Department of Agriculture or laboratories and research facilities maintained by scientific or educational institutions licensed or registered with the United States Department of Agriculture, any licensed veterinarian for the purpose of treatment and care of such animal, or to any person who possesses a breed of felidae certified by The International Cat Association, the Cat Fanciers Association or the American Cat Fanciers Association.

(e) Any person who wilfully violates any provision of subsection (a) of this section shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.

Cited. 230 C. 916; 231 C. 939. Statute not unconstitutionally vague and list of felidae prohibited by statute not exclusive; judgment of Appellate Court in 34 CA 741 reversed in part. 235 C. 426.

Statute not unconstitutionally vague as applied to hybrid bobcat; statute is unconstitutionally vague as applied to jungle cat and bengal cat. 34 CA 741; judgment reversed in part, see 235 C. 426.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-57a — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-57a
Sec. 26-57a. Regulations for the establishment of in-state captive herds of cervids. Pilot program for businesses to maintain reindeer. Importation of reindeer into state from Thanksgiving Day to New Year's Day.
Status: in_force

(b) Any importation permit issued pursuant to this section shall be issued by the Commissioner of Agriculture in consultation with the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection.

(c) Not later than November 1, 2012, the Commissioner of Agriculture shall implement a pilot program for the issuance of two permits that allow not more than two Connecticut businesses to maintain not more than five reindeer each. Each such reindeer shall be subject to an importation permit issued by the Commissioner of Agriculture in consultation with the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Such permits shall be on forms provided by the Commissioner of Agriculture and shall be contingent on requirements determined by the Commissioner of Agriculture, including, but not limited to, the source of such animals, any required health certification, fencing and containment requirements, periodic inspections and testing. Such pilot program shall remain in effect until such time as regulations are adopted pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.

(d) Until such time as regulations are adopted pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, any person may import one or more reindeer into the state during the period commencing on Thanksgiving Day of each year and ending on the immediately following New Year's Day, or for a period of time not to exceed seven days, provided (1) any reindeer so imported pursuant to this subsection is subsequently exported from the state no later than a week following the end of such period, and (2) such importation complies with the following requirements: Each reindeer so imported (A) is individually identified by a permanent metal ear tag, legible tattoo or microchip, (B) possesses a certified veterinary report of inspection documenting an inspection that occurred at least one day and not more than thirty days prior to entry into the state, (C) possesses documentation that verifies such reindeer (i) comes from a herd that is free of both tuberculosis and brucellosis, or (ii) tested negative for tuberculosis and brucellosis at least one day and not more than thirty days prior to entry into the state, and (D) possesses documentation that the originating herd participated in a state chronic wasting disease monitoring program (i) not less than the prior three years if from a state or province not known to have chronic wasting disease, or (ii) not less than the prior five years if from a state or province known to have chronic wasting disease outbreaks.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-25 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-25
Sec. 26-25. Commissioner may declare closed season or extend open season.
Status: in_force

(b) The commissioner may, when he finds that the harvest level for a species exceeds or fails to meet the harvest level for efficient management of such species, declare a closed season or extend the open season for the sport fishing, hunting or trapping of such species. Any closed season or extended open season may be limited to a specific area.

(c) Whenever the commissioner declares a closed season, the reopening of a closed season or the extension of an open season under the provisions of this section, he shall cause notice thereof to be published in the Connecticut Law Journal.

See Sec. 23-50 re authority of Governor to close forests as precaution against fires.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-27d — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-27d
Sec. 26-27d. Citizens' Advisory Board for the Connecticut Migratory Bird and Resident Game Bird Conservation Stamps program.
Status: in_force

(b) The board shall advise the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection on the design, production and procurement of the Connecticut Migratory Bird Conservation Stamp and the Connecticut Resident Game Bird Conservation Stamp and the expenditure of funds generated from the sale of such stamps and associated art products pursuant to sections 26-27b and 26-27c .
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-57 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-57
Sec. 26-57. Permits for transportation and exportation of fish, birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates.
Status: in_force

Killing for purpose of transporting and having in possession with intent to transport are distinct offenses; section is not in restraint of interstate commerce. 61 C. 144; 161 U.S. 519.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-192j — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 491 / Section 26-192j
Sec. 26-192j. Pollution which affects shellfish grounds. Liability to municipal shellfish commission.
Status: in_force

(b) Upon written complaint by the Commissioner of Agriculture that there exists an impairment or threat to the marketability of shellfish due to any such spill, the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall investigate or order the person who caused or reasonably may be expected to cause such spill to investigate all points of existing or potential spills which may directly or indirectly result in contamination of shellfish and may order such person to abate such spill in accordance with the provisions of section 22a-432 .

(c) If any such spill results in the closure of a recreational shellfish bed or harvesting area, the person responsible for such spill, as determined by the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection, shall be liable to any municipal shellfish commission which has jurisdiction over such bed or area for any loss of revenue attributable to fees which would have been paid to such commission by recreational users of such bed or area. The Attorney General, upon complaint of the commission, may institute a civil action to recover such revenue. Any amount recovered shall be returned to the commission.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-74 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-74
Sec. 26-74. Use of motor vehicles, snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles in hunting.
Status: in_force

(b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any person who operates or is in an all-terrain vehicle and who is a paraplegic, or who is suffering from the loss of or the loss of the use of both lower extremities, provided such person has a valid hunting license issued pursuant to this chapter and has received a permit to be issued by the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection upon documentary proof that such person is a paraplegic. Such person shall not shoot or have in his possession or under his control a loaded rifle, shotgun or muzzleloader while such vehicle is in motion or such vehicle is on a public highway.

(c) Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be guilty of a class D misdemeanor.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-311 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 495 / Section 26-311
Sec. 26-311. Taking of endangered or threatened species. Construction of chapter.
Status: in_force

(b) Nothing in sections 26-303 to 26-312 , inclusive, or any regulation adopted pursuant to said sections shall prohibit a person from performing any legal activities on his own land that may result in the incidental taking of endangered or threatened animal and plant species or species of special concern.

(c) Nothing in sections 26-303 to 26-312 , inclusive, or any regulations adopted pursuant to said sections shall prohibit any action authorized pursuant to an exemption or permit provided for by the federal Endangered Species Act or in any regulation adopted under said act, or permit any action prohibited by the Endangered Species Act or by any regulation adopted under said act.

(d) Nothing in sections 26-303 to 26-312 , inclusive, section 26-317 or any regulations adopted pursuant to said sections shall prohibit transportation through this state of any endangered or threatened species in accordance with the terms of any permit issued under the laws of another state provided the person in possession of an endangered or threatened species can prove legal possession of the species.

(e) The commissioner may prohibit, in an emergency, the taking of any state species of special concern threatened with undue depletion from overutilization of the species for commercial, recreational, scientific, educational or private purposes.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-112 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-112
Sec. 26-112. Scope of regulations.
Status: in_force

See Sec. 26-102 re fish spawning areas and refuges.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-66 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 490 / Section 26-66
Sec. 26-66. Scope of regulations.
Status: in_force

See Sec. 53a-217e re negligent hunting offenses.

Cited. 3 Conn. Cir. Ct. 414.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-215 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 491 / Section 26-215
Sec. 26-215. Power dredges. Local shellfish commissions. Use of power dredges to restore shellfish beds.
Status: in_force

(b) A local shellfish commission established pursuant to section 26-257a may allow limited and supervised use of a power dredge or other contrivance with a capacity of not more than three bushels, for the purpose of cultivation, enhancement or restoration of natural shellfish beds located within the jurisdiction of said commission. The use of a power dredge or other contrivance pursuant to this subsection shall not be extended to the harvesting or removal of oysters. Such shellfish commission shall administer such dredging pursuant to section 26-257a .
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-295 — Connecticut Code / Title 26 / Chapter 493 / Section 26-295
Sec. 26-295. Compact for state membership in the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission.
Status: in_force

ATLANTIC STATES MARINE FISHERIES COMPACT

The contracting states solemnly agree:

ARTICLE I

The purpose of this compact is to promote the better utilization of the fisheries, marine, shell and anadromous, of the Atlantic seaboard by the development of a joint program for the promotion and protection of such fisheries, and by the prevention of the physical waste of the fisheries from any cause. It is not the purpose of this compact to authorize the states joining herein to limit the production of fish or fish products for the purpose of establishing or fixing the price thereof, or creating and perpetuating monopoly.

ARTICLE II

This agreement shall become operative immediately as to those states executing it whenever any two or more of the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida have executed it in the form that is in accordance with the laws of the executing state and the Congress has given its consent. Any state contiguous with any of the aforementioned states and riparian upon waters frequented by anadromous fish, flowing into waters under the jurisdiction of any of the aforementioned states, may become a party hereto as hereinafter provided.

ARTICLE III

Each state joining herein shall appoint three representatives to a commission hereby constituted and designated as the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission. One shall be the executive officer of the administrative agency of such state charged with the conservation of the fisheries resources to which this compact pertains or, if there be more than one officer or agency, the official of that state named by the governor thereof. The second shall be a member of the legislature of such state designated by the commission or committee on interstate cooperation of such state, or if there be none, or if said commission on interstate cooperation cannot constitutionally designate the said member, such legislator shall be designated by the governor thereof: Provided, that if it is constitutionally impossible to appoint a legislator as a commissioner from such state, the second member shall be appointed by the governor of said state in his discretion. The third shall be a citizen who shall have a knowledge of and interest in the marine fisheries problem to be appointed by the governor. The commission shall be a body corporate with the powers and duties set forth herein.

ARTICLE IV

The duty of the said commission shall be to make inquiry and ascertain from time to time such methods, practices, circumstances and conditions as may be disclosed for bringing about the conservation and the prevention of the depletion and physical waste of the fisheries, marine, shell and anadromous, of the Atlantic seaboard. The commission shall have power to recommend the coordination of the exercise of the police powers of the several states within their respective jurisdictions to promote the preservation of those fisheries and their protection against overfishing, waste, depletion or any abuse whatsoever and to assure a continuing yield from the fisheries resources of the aforementioned states.

To that end the commission shall draft and, after consultation with the advisory committee hereinafter authorized, recommend to the governors and legislatures of the various signatory states legislation dealing with the conservation of the marine, shell and anadromous fisheries of the Atlantic seaboard. The commission shall, more than one month prior to any regular meeting of the legislature in any signatory state, present to the governor of the state its recommendations relating to enactments to be made by the legislature of that state in furthering the intents and purposes of this compact.

The commission shall consult with and advise the pertinent administrative agencies in the states party hereto with regard to problems connected with the fisheries and recommend the adoption of such regulations as it deems advisable.

The commission shall have power to recommend to the states party hereto the stocking of the waters of such states with fish and fish eggs or joint stocking by some or all of the states party hereto and when two or more of the states shall jointly stock waters, the commission shall act as the coordinating agency for such stocking.

ARTICLE V

The commission shall elect from its number a chairman and a vice chairman and shall appoint and at its pleasure remove or discharge such officers and employees as may be required to carry the provisions of this compact into effect and shall fix and determine their duties, qualifications and compensation. Said commission shall adopt rules and regulations for the conduct of its business. It may establish and maintain one or more offices for the transaction of its business and may meet at any time or place but must meet at least once a year.

ARTICLE VI

No action shall be taken by the commission in regard to its general affairs except by the affirmative vote of a majority of the whole number of compacting states present at any meeting. No recommendation shall be made by the commission in regard to any species of fish except by the affirmative vote of a majority of the compacting states which have an interest in such species. The commission shall define what shall be an interest.

ARTICLE VII

The Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department of the Interior of the government of the United States shall act as the primary research agency of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission cooperating with the research agencies in each state for that purpose. Representatives of the said Fish and Wildlife Service shall attend the meetings of the commission.

An advisory committee to be representative of the commercial fishermen and the salt water anglers and such other interests of each state as the commission deems advisable shall be established by the commission as soon as practicable for the purpose of advising the commission upon such recommendations as it may desire to make.

ARTICLE VIII

When any state other than those named specifically in article II of this compact shall become a party thereto for the purpose of conserving its anadromous fish in accordance with the provisions of article II the participation of such state in the action of the commission shall be limited to such species of anadromous fish.

ARTICLE IX

Nothing in this compact shall be construed to limit the powers of any signatory state or to repeal or prevent the enactment of any legislation or the enforcement of any requirement by any signatory state imposing additional conditions and restrictions to conserve its fisheries.

ARTICLE X

Continued absence of representation or of any representative on the commission from any state party hereto shall be brought to the attention of the governor thereof.

ARTICLE XI

The states party hereto agree to make annual appropriation to the support of the commission in proportion to the primary market value of the products of their fisheries, exclusive of cod and haddock, as recorded in the most recent published reports of the Fish and Wildlife Service of the United States Department of the Interior, provided no state shall contribute less than two hundred dollars per annum and the annual contribution of each state above the minimum shall be figured to the nearest one hundred dollars.

The compacting states agree to appropriate initially the annual amounts scheduled below, which amounts are calculated in the manner set forth herein, on the basis of the catch record of 1938. Subsequent budgets shall be recommended by majority of the commission and the cost thereof allocated equitably among the states in accordance with the respective interests and submitted to the compacting states.

Schedule of Initial Annual States Contributions: