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RI Gen L § 20-10-12 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 20 - Fish and Wildlife|Chapter 20-10 - Aquaculture|Section 20-10-12 - Permits and licenses for the taking, possession, sale, importation, and transportation of species used in aquaculture.

§ 20-10-12. Permits and licenses for the taking, possession, sale, importation, and transportation of species used in aquaculture.(a) The director is authorized and empowered to grant permits for, issue licenses for, and establish rules and regulations governing the taking, possession, sale, importation, and transportation of animal or plant species utilized in aquaculture; provided, however, that in the case of bivalves, no approval shall be given for the sale, possession, use, storage, or transportation of those species for human consumption without the written approval and permission of the director of health.(b) Any person who takes, possesses, imports, or transports any animal or plant species as delineated in subsection (a) without a permit issued by the director shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to imprisonment of not more than one year or a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500), or both. The animal or plant species possessed, imported, or transported by that person may be forfeited to the state.(c) In accordance with rules and regulations established under this section, permits issued by the director may provide for specific exemptions, notwithstanding other provisions of law, from quotas, catch or bag limits, seasons, minimum-size limits and other such restrictions on commercial fishing as the director, in consultation with the council, may determine to be inappropriate to commercial aquaculture.(d) Any person who is granted permits for the conduct of aquaculture by the CRMC and the director in accordance with this chapter shall obtain a commercial aquaculture license to sell aquaculture products in the state to licensed fish and shellfish dealers. The license shall be issued by the department on a calendar-year basis for an annual fee of two hundred dollars ($200).History of Section.P.L. 1980, ch. 219, § 2; P.L. 2001, ch. 58, § 4; P.L. 2002, ch. 47, § 10.
RI Gen L § 20-10-13 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 20 - Fish and Wildlife|Chapter 20-10 - Aquaculture|Section 20-10-13 - Cultivated plants or animals as property of the permittee.

§ 20-10-13. Cultivated plants or animals as property of the permittee.Any plant or animal species, as stipulated in an aquaculture permit, that are being cultivated within the designated, permitted area, are the personal property of the permittee.History of Section.P.L. 1980, ch. 219, § 2.
RI Gen L § 20-10-13.1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 20 - Fish and Wildlife|Chapter 20-10 - Aquaculture|Section 20-10-13.1 - Cultivated plants or animals - Exemption from certain wild fishery restrictions.

§ 20-10-13.1. Cultivated plants or animals — Exemption from certain wild fishery restrictions.(a) Aquaculture activities conducted in a manner consistent with permit and license conditions and in accordance with the rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to this chapter, and aquaculture products harvested for sale as a result of those activities, shall be exempt from the following statutory and regulatory restrictions governing wild fisheries: seasons, bag limits, methods of harvest, and, except for quahaugs (Mercenaria mercenaria), minimum sizes.(b) The possessor of aquaculture products subject to these exemptions shall have the burden of proof that the products were legally acquired and possessed. In accordance with applicable rules and regulations governing aquaculture products, proper tags and bills of sale shall constitute the primary means for satisfying this burden of proof.(c) Aquaculturists are prohibited from harvesting for sale to a shellfish dealer for human consumption quahaugs (Mercenaria mercenaria) with a hinge width of less than one inch (1").(d) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (a) and (c) above, the director of the department of environmental management is authorized to promulgate regulations establishing a special exemption permit that would exempt department of health-licensed food processing facilities from the one-inch-minimum-size restriction governing bay quahogs, pursuant to § 20-6-11(b).History of Section.P.L. 2002, ch. 47, § 11; P.L. 2004, ch. 430, § 2; P.L. 2004, ch. 507, § 2.
RI Gen L § 20-10-14 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 20 - Fish and Wildlife|Chapter 20-10 - Aquaculture|Section 20-10-14 - Emergency closure of areas subject to permit.

§ 20-10-14. Emergency closure of areas subject to permit.Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter, or any other provision of law, if the director finds, or has cause to believe, that an aquaculture activity is causing, or is likely to cause, an immediate danger to marine life or the environment of the coastal waters of the state, the director shall notify the CRMC. The CRMC shall immediately order all permittees affected by that notice to show cause why their aquaculture activities should not be terminated, and any aquaculture species or paraphernalia removed from the waters of the state. The CRMC shall proceed to hold a public hearing and issue its order with respect to the hearing, within a reasonable period. In its order following the hearing, the CRMC may direct the temporary or permanent suspension of aquaculture activities in the affected area, removal of equipment or animals, or any other measures as shall be deemed necessary for the protection of the marine life and environment of the waters of the state, including the forfeiture to, and destruction by, the state of any plant or animal species.History of Section.P.L. 1980, ch. 219, § 2.
RI Gen L § 20-10-15 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 20 - Fish and Wildlife|Chapter 20-10 - Aquaculture|Section 20-10-15 - Authority to enter and inspect.

§ 20-10-15. Authority to enter and inspect.The director shall have the authority to enter and inspect any and all areas subject to an aquaculture permit for the purpose of determining compliance with the terms and provisions of the permit.History of Section.P.L. 1980, ch. 219, § 2.
RI Gen L § 20-10-16 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 20 - Fish and Wildlife|Chapter 20-10 - Aquaculture|Section 20-10-16 - Penalties.

§ 20-10-16. Penalties.(a) Any person who conducts aquaculture activities in excess of those authorized by an aquaculture permit shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to imprisonment not exceeding one year or a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or both. In addition to that fine and/or imprisonment, all works, improvements, fish, and animal and plant life involved in the project may be forfeited to the state.(b) Any person damaging, disturbing, or interfering with any area subject to an aquaculture permit or any person damaging, disturbing, interfering, or taking by any means whatsoever, or possessing the cultivated species in an area subject to an aquaculture permit, without the permission of the permittee, is guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to imprisonment not exceeding one year or a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or both. In addition to that fine and/or imprisonment, all vessels, dredges, tongs, rakes, and other implements used to damage, disturb, interfere, or take cultivated species in those areas may be forfeited to the state.History of Section.P.L. 1980, ch. 219, § 2; P.L. 2002, ch. 47, § 10.
RI Gen L § 20-10-16.1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 20 - Fish and Wildlife|Chapter 20-10 - Aquaculture|Section 20-10-16.1 - License or permit suspension or revocation.

§ 20-10-16.1. License or permit suspension or revocation.The permit or license of any person who has violated the provisions of this chapter, or the rules and regulations issued pursuant to it, including anyone holding a license or permit found guilty of a violation in accordance with § 20-10-16(b), may be suspended or revoked by the CRMC or the director as the CRMC or the director shall determine by regulation. Any person aggrieved by an order of suspension or revocation may appeal this order in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Procedures Act, chapter 35 of title 42.History of Section.P.L. 2002, ch. 47, § 11.
RI Gen L § 20-10-17 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 20 - Fish and Wildlife|Chapter 20-10 - Aquaculture|Section 20-10-17 - Arrest, seizure, and prosecution of violators.

§ 20-10-17. Arrest, seizure, and prosecution of violators.(a) Any police officer authorized to make arrests, the director, and conservation officers appointed under the authority of § 20-1-6 shall be empowered:(1) To enforce all laws, rules, and regulations relating to this chapter;(2) To execute all warrants and search warrants for the violation of laws, rules, and regulations relating to this chapter;(3) To serve subpoenas issued for the trial of all offenses hereunder;(4) To arrest, without a warrant and on view, any person found violating any law, rule, or regulation relating to this chapter; take that person before a court having jurisdiction for trials; detain that person in custody at the expense of the state until arraignment; and to make and execute complaints within any district, to the justice or clerk of the court, against any person for any of the offenses enumerated under this chapter, committed within the district.(b) The director, and the director's deputies and assistants, may, by virtue of their respective offices, make complaints of any violation of this chapter, and they shall not be required to give recognizance or to furnish surety for costs or be liable for costs on those complaints.History of Section.P.L. 1980, ch. 219, § 2; P.L. 2017, ch. 451, § 29.
RI Gen L § 20-10-18 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 20 - Fish and Wildlife|Chapter 20-10 - Aquaculture|Section 20-10-18 - Severability.

§ 20-10-18. Severability.If any provision of this chapter, or any rule, regulation, or determination made under this chapter, or the application of this chapter to any person, agency, or circumstance, is held invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remainder of this chapter, or the rule, regulation, or determination, and the application of those provisions to other persons, agencies, or circumstances shall not be affected. The invalidity of any section or sections or parts of any section or sections of this chapter shall not affect the validity of the remainder of this chapter.History of Section.P.L. 1980, ch. 219, § 2.
RI Gen L § 20-11-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 20 - Fish and Wildlife|Chapter 20-11 - Freshwater Fishing|Section 20-11-1 - Fishing for which license required.

§ 20-11-1. Fishing for which license required.No person fifteen (15) years old or older shall catch or take any fish in any freshwater stream or freshwater pond within this state, or place or operate or superintend any device for the purpose of taking or catching fish in any of those waters, without having first obtained a license; provided, however, that a license shall not be required of any resident of this state, or the members of the resident's immediate family, to fish in any brook or pond running through or bordering upon land owned or leased by the resident and on which the resident is actually domiciled, nor those individuals exempted under § 20-2-31.History of Section.P.L. 1981, ch. 197, § 3; P.L. 1986, ch. 549, § 3.
RI Gen L § 20-11-2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 20 - Fish and Wildlife|Chapter 20-11 - Freshwater Fishing|Section 20-11-2 - Closed season.

§ 20-11-2. Closed season.No person shall catch, or attempt to catch, or take any species of fish in any pond or stream stocked with trout by the department of environmental management or in any waters set apart by the department in which trout might be found, except during the open seasons, and subject to the catch and size limits, and regulations as to the method of taking, as established by the director pursuant to § 20-1-12.History of Section.P.L. 1981, ch. 197, § 3.
RI Gen L § 20-11-3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 20 - Fish and Wildlife|Chapter 20-11 - Freshwater Fishing|Section 20-11-3 - Fishing devices allowed.

§ 20-11-3. Fishing devices allowed.Unless otherwise specified by regulations adopted by the department of environmental management, only a rod and reel or other device held in and operated by hand shall be used to catch, or attempt to catch, fish in the freshwaters of the state, except that suckers, fall fish, and carp may be taken by snares, spears, or bow and arrow, and minnows may be taken as provided in §§ 20-11-7 — 20-11-9. No person shall place, operate, or superintend more than two (2) of those devices for the purpose of taking or catching fish at any time, and no more than three (3) hooks may be attached to each device; provided, however, that for the purpose of fishing through ice upon the surface of any stream or freshwater pond, any person may place, operate, or superintend five (5) lines, with a single hook upon each and held by any device designed for that purpose, and provided further that every one of those lines shall be attended by a person lawfully permitted to catch fish.History of Section.P.L. 1981, ch. 197, § 3.
RI Gen L § 20-11-4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 20 - Fish and Wildlife|Chapter 20-11 - Freshwater Fishing|Section 20-11-4 - Artificially cultivated fish.

§ 20-11-4. Artificially cultivated fish.Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit the taking and possession, at any time of the year, fish artificially cultivated in private ponds. For the purpose of this section, a "private pond" is defined as a body of water that is completely in the ownership of one taxpayer.History of Section.P.L. 1981, ch. 197, § 3.
RI Gen L § 20-11-5 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 20 - Fish and Wildlife|Chapter 20-11 - Freshwater Fishing|Section 20-11-5 - Sale of freshwater fish.

§ 20-11-5. Sale of freshwater fish.No person shall sell, or offer for sale, within this state, any trout, black bass, pickerel, northern pike, Atlantic salmon, American shad, or yellow perch taken from any freshwater streams, rivers, ponds, or lakes within the jurisdiction of this state, excepting any of these fish that are artificially cultivated in private ponds as authorized by law.History of Section.P.L. 1981, ch. 197, § 3.
RI Gen L § 20-11-6 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 20 - Fish and Wildlife|Chapter 20-11 - Freshwater Fishing|Section 20-11-6 - Stocking of streams and ponds.

§ 20-11-6. Stocking of streams and ponds.No person shall stock any freshwater stream or pond within this state with any species of fish, or place or liberate any fish in any freshwater stream or pond within this state, without having first obtained a permit from the department of environmental management. No person shall place, operate, or superintend any device intended for the purpose of taking or catching fish in any private pond, brook, stream, or reserve, or any other place made, constructed, or used for the purpose of breeding or growing fish, without the consent of the proprietor or lessee.History of Section.P.L. 1981, ch. 197, § 3.
RI Gen L § 20-11-7 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 20 - Fish and Wildlife|Chapter 20-11 - Freshwater Fishing|Section 20-11-7 - License required for selling freshwater minnows.

§ 20-11-7. License required for selling freshwater minnows.It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or barter, or engage in the business of taking or catching for the purpose of selling or bartering, freshwater live minnows for bait, or to possess more than one hundred (100) freshwater live minnows, without first procuring a license from the department of environmental management. For the purpose of this chapter, "freshwater minnows" shall be defined to include all minnows and the young of all species of freshwater fish except the game species, trout, northern pike, pickerel, largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, shad, Atlantic salmon, and alewives.History of Section.P.L. 1981, ch. 197, § 3; P.L. 1983, ch. 107, § 2.
RI Gen L § 20-11-8 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 20 - Fish and Wildlife|Chapter 20-11 - Freshwater Fishing|Section 20-11-8 - Authorized traps, seines, and nets.

§ 20-11-8. Authorized traps, seines, and nets.Freshwater minnows, not including the young of any species of game fish, may be lawfully taken for bait with minnow traps, dip nets, and seines of the dimensions of not more than eight feet (8′) in length and four feet (4′) in depth and having a mesh not larger than one-quarter of an inch (¼") in any waters of this state. The possession and use of minnow seines larger than the dimensions specified in this section, unless otherwise provided, shall be unlawful.History of Section.P.L. 1981, ch. 197, § 3.
RI Gen L § 20-11-9 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 20 - Fish and Wildlife|Chapter 20-11 - Freshwater Fishing|Section 20-11-9 - Larger seines used by licensees.

§ 20-11-9. Larger seines used by licensees.Minnow seines of greater dimensions than authorized in § 20-11-8 may be lawfully possessed and used by a person licensed under this chapter, in the waters specified by the director of environmental management; provided, that no minnow seines so licensed shall exceed fifty feet (50′) in length and eight feet (8′) in depth and shall have a mesh larger than one-quarter of an inch (¼"); provided further, that upon the payment of an additional ten dollars ($10.00) for each twenty-five feet (25′), a seine over fifty feet (50′) in length and up to one hundred feet (100′) can be used.History of Section.P.L. 1981, ch. 197, § 3.
RI Gen L § 20-11-10 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 20 - Fish and Wildlife|Chapter 20-11 - Freshwater Fishing|Section 20-11-10 - Injurious substances.

§ 20-11-10. Injurious substances.No person shall place, deposit, or explode any substance injurious to the health or life of fish in any stream or freshwater pond within this state; provided, however, a person may obtain a permit issued by the director of environmental management to use certain chemicals for the eradication of vegetation and control of fish populations under regulations promulgated by the director.History of Section.P.L. 1982, ch. 30, § 4.
RI Gen L § 20-11-11 - 20-11-19 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 20 - Fish and Wildlife|Chapter 20-11 - Freshwater Fishing|Section 20-11-11 - 20-11-19 - [Reserved.]

§ 20-11-11 — 20-11-19. [Reserved.]
RI Gen L § 20-11-20 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 20 - Fish and Wildlife|Chapter 20-11 - Freshwater Fishing|Section 20-11-20 - Penalties.

§ 20-11-20. Penalties.Any person who violates any provision of this chapter, or who violates any rule or regulation made under the provisions of this chapter, shall be guilty of a civil violation and be subject to a fine of one hundred dollars ($100) for each offense. Jurisdiction over violations of this chapter shall be with the traffic tribunal.History of Section.P.L. 1993, ch. 372, § 2; P.L. 2007, ch. 253, § 4; P.L. 2007, ch. 294, § 4.
RI Gen L § 20-11-21 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 20 - Fish and Wildlife|Chapter 20-11 - Freshwater Fishing|Section 20-11-21 - Jurisdiction.

§ 20-11-21. Jurisdiction.Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, the traffic tribunal shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear and determine all violations specified in this chapter.History of Section.P.L. 1993, ch. 372, § 2; P.L. 2007, ch. 253, § 4; P.L. 2007, ch. 294, § 4.
RI Gen L § 20-12-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 20 - Fish and Wildlife|Chapter 20-12 - Fish Cultivation|Section 20-12-1 - Cultivation of inland fish.

§ 20-12-1. Cultivation of inland fish.The department of environmental management shall be empowered to introduce, protect, and cultivate fish in the inland waters of the state, and to construct, maintain, and operate fish cultivation and breeding facilities and undertake fish cultivation projects within the state as may be, in the opinion of the director, appropriate. The director may take fish from the fisheries of the state for any purpose connected with fish culture or for scientific observation.History of Section.P.L. 1981, ch. 197, § 3.
RI Gen L § 20-12-2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 20 - Fish and Wildlife|Chapter 20-12 - Fish Cultivation|Section 20-12-2 - Acquisition of land for fish cultivation.

§ 20-12-2. Acquisition of land for fish cultivation.For the purpose of protecting and propagating fish and providing fishing preserves, the director of environmental management may, in the name and for the use of the state, and subject to approval of the state properties committee, acquire, by gift, lease, or purchase, land, freshwater streams, lakes, or ponds, or any part thereof or rights and interests therein.History of Section.P.L. 1981, ch. 197, § 3.
RI Gen L § 20-12-3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 20 - Fish and Wildlife|Chapter 20-12 - Fish Cultivation|Section 20-12-3 - Freshwater hatcheries.

§ 20-12-3. Freshwater hatcheries.The department of environmental management shall establish and maintain freshwater hatcheries in this state for the purpose of providing freshwater and anadromous game fish to be used by the department in the stocking of the ponds and streams of the state. All of the output of those hatcheries not so used shall be sold at a fair-market price and for cash only, and the money received shall be turned in to the general treasury for the use of the state.History of Section.P.L. 1981, ch. 197, § 3.
RI Gen L § 20-12-4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 20 - Fish and Wildlife|Chapter 20-12 - Fish Cultivation|Section 20-12-4 - Fishways.

§ 20-12-4. Fishways.For the purpose of providing for the passage of anadromous fish species to their traditional spawning grounds in freshwater, the department of environmental management is authorized and directed to construct fishways around or through existing dams in the rivers and streams of this state. The owners of those dams shall cooperate with the department of environmental management and shall not be liable for any damage as the result of the construction of the fishways.History of Section.P.L. 1981, ch. 197, § 3.
RI Gen L § 20-12-5 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 20 - Fish and Wildlife|Chapter 20-12 - Fish Cultivation|Section 20-12-5 - Fishing prohibited in or near waters set aside.

§ 20-12-5. Fishing prohibited in or near waters set aside.No person shall catch, or attempt to catch, any fish, or use any seine for catching fish, in waters acquired by the director of environmental management for fish cultivation projects, or within one half (½) mile from the mouth or outlet of any fish cultivation project; provided, however, the director may, by regulation adopted pursuant to § 20-1-12, or by special permit, allow persons to fish at or near a fish cultivation project.History of Section.P.L. 1981, ch. 197, § 3.
RI Gen L § 20-12-6 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 20 - Fish and Wildlife|Chapter 20-12 - Fish Cultivation|Section 20-12-6 - Obstructions to fish culture.

§ 20-12-6. Obstructions to fish culture.The director of environmental management may seize, and remove summarily if need be, all obstructions erected to hinder the passage of fish or that are illegally erected to obstruct, or in any way impede, the growth and culture of fish; and every person rebuilding or continuing any obstruction after it has been removed and notification has been given by the director, shall be fined not less than five hundred dollars ($500) for each offense.History of Section.P.L. 1981, ch. 197, § 3.