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CT Gen Stat § 26-114 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 26 - Fisheries and Game|Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game|Section 26-114 - Prohibited acts.

 No species of fish or bait shall be fished for or taken in the inland district except as authorized under the provisions of this chapter and the regulations issued by the commissioner. Any species of fish or bait taken during the closed season for such species, or less than the legal length, or in excess of the daily, season or possession limits for the species involved, shall not be possessed and all such fish or bait shall, without avoidable injury, be immediately returned to the waters from whence taken. No person shall fish, take, attempt to fish or take or assist in fishing or taking or attempting to fish or take any species of fish or bait in the inland district except as authorized under the provisions of this section. Each fish or bait species taken or possessed contrary to the provisions of this section or the regulations issued by the commissioner shall constitute a separate offense. No person shall buy, sell or exchange, offer for sale or exchange, or possess with intent to sell or exchange, any species of trout, any species of salmon specified by the commissioner, black bass, calico bass or crappie, chain pickerel (Esox niger), great northern pike (Esox lucius), or pike perch, wall-eyed pike (Stizostedion vitreum) or any bait species, except as provided under the provisions of this chapter and as authorized under regulations issued by the commissioner. Each fish or bait species sold, purchased, exchanged or possessed contrary to the provisions hereof shall constitute a separate offense.(1955, S. 2520d; 1957, P.A. 337; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 299.)History: 1971 act replaced references to board of fisheries and game with references to environmental protection commissioner.
CT Gen Stat § 26-114a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 26 - Fisheries and Game|Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game|Section 26-114a - Purchase or sale of snakehead fish prohibited.

 No person shall sell or purchase any snakehead fish in the state.(P.A. 03-192, S. 11.)
CT Gen Stat § 26-115 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 26 - Fisheries and Game|Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game|Section 26-115 - Fisheries management practices of commissioner.

 The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may engage in fisheries management practices and may expend from federal aid funds necessary moneys to establish, construct and maintain, on any state-owned land and water under his control and, with the consent of the owner, on private land and water, fish cultural installations and associated structures, stream and pond improvement and control structures and experimental stations, and for the creation of facilities for public use of any area under his control. Said commissioner is delegated authority to expend from federal aid funds necessary moneys for supplies, materials, equipment, temporary personal services and contractual services to carry out the provisions of sections 26-102 and 26-111 to 26-117, inclusive.(1955, S. 2523d; 1959, P.A. 398, S. 16; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 300; P.A. 96-180, S. 96, 166; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)History: 1959 act deleted references to expenditures from fish fund; 1971 act replaced references to board of fisheries and game with references to environmental protection commissioner; P.A. 96-180 changed “Said commissioner” to “The Commissioner of Environmental Protection”, effective June 3, 1996; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Commissioner of Environmental Protection” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection”, effective July 1, 2011.
CT Gen Stat § 26-116 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 26 - Fisheries and Game|Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game|Section 26-116 - Exceptions.

 The provisions of sections 26-102 and 26-111 to 26-117, inclusive, shall not apply to the taking of fish for commercial purposes and shall not affect any statute regulating fishing in any lake, pond or reservoir used for domestic water supply, nor shall any action be taken under the provisions of said sections which will unreasonably interfere with the proper management of a public water supply system.(1955, S. 2522d.)
CT Gen Stat § 26-117 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 26 - Fisheries and Game|Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game|Section 26-117 - Fine for violation.

 Any person who violates any provision of sections 26-102 and 26-111 to 26-116, inclusive, or any regulation issued by the commissioner pursuant thereto shall be fined one hundred fifty-four dollars. Each fish taken or possessed contrary to said provisions or to the regulations issued by the commissioner shall constitute a separate offense.(1955, S. 2524d; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 301; P.A. 95-119, S. 6; P.A. 01-115, S. 1, 5.)History: 1971 act replaced references to board of fisheries and game with references to environmental protection commissioner; P.A. 95-119 deleted a provision re imprisonment and set the fine at $77; P.A. 01-115 changed fine to $154, effective July 1, 2001.
CT Gen Stat § 26-118 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 26 - Fisheries and Game|Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game|Section 26-118 - Fishing in reservoir.

 No person shall take or attempt to take any fish from the waters of any lake, pond or reservoir, which waters are used for domestic purposes, without having obtained written permission from the official having such lake, pond or reservoir under control. The provisions of this section shall not affect the provisions of part III of chapter 474.(1949 Rev., S. 4932.)
CT Gen Stat § 26-119 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 26 - Fisheries and Game|Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game|Section 26-119 - Use of explosives or poisons.

 Fish shall not be taken by means of any explosive. Except for mining or mechanical purposes, no dynamite or any other explosive shall be used in any of the waters of the state or possessed upon any shore or island of any inland water thereof, and possession thereof by any person on any shore or island of any inland water shall be prima facie evidence that the same is possessed for use in violation of the provisions of this section. No person shall place in any lake, pond or stream any lime, creosote or cocculus indicus or any other drug or poison injurious to fish; provided the persons or corporations supplying water to the inhabitants of any town, city or borough may apply copper sulphate to the waters of any lake, pond or reservoir under their control within such limits as may be established by the Department of Public Health. The provisions of this section shall not affect the authority of the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection to issue permits for the addition of chemicals to any inland water for the control of vegetation, fish populations or other aquatic organisms. Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars. Each fish taken or possessed in violation of any provision of this part shall constitute a separate offense.(1949 Rev., S. 4938; February, 1965, P.A. 271, S. 3; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-119, S. 7; 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)History: 1965 act deleted proviso which had allowed director of fisheries and game to issue permit for addition of copper sulphate to waters for controlling algae and specified that section does not affect board's authority to issue permits for “addition of chemicals to any inland water for the control of vegetation, fish populations or other aquatic organisms”; P.A. 77-614 replaced department of health with department of health services, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 93-381 replaced department of health services with department of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-119 added a fine of $100 for violation of this section and specified that each fish taken in violation shall constitute a separate offense; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Commissioner of Environmental Protection” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection”, effective July 1, 2011.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.
CT Gen Stat § 26-120 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 26 - Fisheries and Game|Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game|Section 26-120 - Striped bass.

 Section 26-120 is repealed.(1949 Rev., S. 4975; 1957, P.A. 169, S. 1; 1959, P.A. 29, S. 1; P.A. 80-164, S. 4, 5.)
CT Gen Stat § 26-121 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 26 - Fisheries and Game|Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game|Section 26-121 - Taking of tomcod or frost fish in Saugatuck River.

 Tomcod or frost fish may be taken, annually, without a license, from the Saugatuck River, between the State Street Bridge and Wood's Dam, so called, in the town of Westport, by sport fishing or spearing, between December fifteenth and January first.(1949 Rev., S. 4960.)
CT Gen Stat § 26-122 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 26 - Fisheries and Game|Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game|Section 26-122 - Fishing through ice in Cranberry Pond, Cream Hill Lake and Lake Quonnipaug.

 No person shall take or attempt to take any fish through the ice in Cranberry Pond, sometimes called Manitook Lake, in the town of Granby, except on Saturdays and Sundays. No person shall take, assist in taking or attempt to take any fish through the ice from Cream Hill Lake in the town of Cornwall or from Lake Quonnipaug in the town of Guilford.(1949 Rev., S. 5006, 5007, 5016; 1953, S. 2548d.)
CT Gen Stat § 26-123 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 26 - Fisheries and Game|Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game|Section 26-123 - Fishing through ice in Long Meadow Pond.

 Section 26-123 is repealed.(1949 Rev., S. 5012; 1963, P.A. 120.)
CT Gen Stat § 26-124 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 26 - Fisheries and Game|Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game|Section 26-124 - Indian Pond.

 Any nonresident who holds a license to fish in the state of New York may sport fish in that portion of Indian Pond located within the town of Sharon without a license to sport fish issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter; but such nonresident shall be subject to all other provisions of the statutes of this state relating to fishing in lakes and ponds.(1949 Rev., S. 5013.)
CT Gen Stat § 26-125 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 26 - Fisheries and Game|Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game|Section 26-125 - Beach Pond and Killingly Pond.

 Any nonresident who holds a license to fish in the state of Rhode Island may sport fish in that portion of Beach Pond which is located in the town of Voluntown and of Killingly Pond which is located within the town of Killingly without a license to sport fish issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter; but such nonresident shall be subject to all other provisions of the statutes of this state relating to fishing in lakes and ponds.(1949 Rev., S. 5014.)
CT Gen Stat § 26-126 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 26 - Fisheries and Game|Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game|Section 26-126 - Disposition of fish illegally taken.

 Any fish or crustacean, or part thereof, illegally taken or possessed shall be seized by the commissioner, any authorized employee of the department or any conservation officer, and the commissioner may, at his discretion, sell or otherwise dispose of the same. The proceeds of any such sale shall be paid to the State Treasurer and applied by him to the General Fund.(1949 Rev., S. 4896; 1959, P.A. 398, S. 23; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 302.)History: 1959 act required that proceeds from sale of illegally taken fish or crustaceans be deposited in general fund rather than in fish fund; 1971 act replaced references to members and director of board of fisheries and game with references to environmental protection commissioner and employees of environmental protection department.Cited. 9 CA 228.
CT Gen Stat § 26-127 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 26 - Fisheries and Game|Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game|Section 26-127 - Conservation of bait species.

 Any person who transports out of this state any bait species taken from any of the waters of this state or who takes, assists in taking or attempts to take any bait species from any such waters for the purpose of transporting the same out of the state shall be guilty of a class D misdemeanor; but no provision of this section shall prevent the exportation of bait species propagated and grown in private waters registered with the commissioner as such or in licensed commercial hatcheries.(1949 Rev., S. 4937; 1957, P.A. 278, S. 1; P.A. 12-80, S. 85; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-2, S. 66.)History: P.A. 12-80 replaced penalty of a fine of not less than $50 or more than $200 or imprisonment of not more than 30 days or both with a class D misdemeanor and made a technical change; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-2 substituted “commissioner” for “board”.
CT Gen Stat § 26-128 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 26 - Fisheries and Game|Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game|Section 26-128 - Carp and goldfish.

 (a) No person shall sell, offer for sale, transport, transfer, possess or use any carp or goldfish for bait fish purposes. No person shall introduce any carp or goldfish into any of the inland waters of the state without first having secured a written permit from the commissioner. Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be fined one hundred dollars.(b) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall adopt regulations, in accordance with chapter 54, governing the taking of carp by bow and arrow in the Thames River, the Connecticut River and its coves downstream of the Arrigoni Bridge, the Coginchaug River downstream of Route 3, including the Cromwell Meadows Wildlife Management Area, the Quinnipiac River downstream of Route 40 and the Housatonic River downstream of the Derby Dam. Until such time as regulations are adopted there shall be no closed season for carp taken by bow and arrow in said areas.(1951, S. 2513d; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 303; P.A. 95-119, S. 8; P.A. 18-181, S. 4.)History: 1971 act replaced reference to director of board of fisheries and game with reference to environmental protection commissioner; P.A. 95-119 deleted provision re imprisonment for violation of section; P.A. 18-181 designated existing provisions re carp or goldfish for bait fish purposes as Subsec. (a), and added Subsec. (b) re Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection to adopt regulations governing taking of carp by bow and arrow.
CT Gen Stat § 26-128a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 26 - Fisheries and Game|Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game|Section 26-128a - Taking of glass eels, elver eels and silver eels prohibited. Penalty.

 No person shall take or attempt to take any elver eel, glass eel or silver eel from the waters of the state. Any person who violates the provisions of this section shall be fined not more than two hundred fifty dollars.(P.A. 02-50, S. 1.)
CT Gen Stat § 26-129 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 26 - Fisheries and Game|Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game|Section 26-129 - Forfeiture of fishing tackle.

 Any boat, seine, net, spear, torch, fishing tackle or other implement used in taking or catching fish or crustaceans in violation of any provision of this chapter or any regulation issued by the commissioner shall be forfeited and may be seized by the commissioner, or any authorized agent of the department, any conservation officer or any other officer authorized to make arrests, and, upon complaint alleging that any such implement was being used in violation of any such provision, the court may order such boat, seine, net, spear, torch, fishing tackle or other implement to be forfeited to the state and delivered to the commissioner to be sold or destroyed within his discretion. If sold, the proceeds of such sale shall be paid by him to the State Treasurer to be credited to the General Fund. The person using or in charge of any boat, seine, net, spear, torch, fishing tackle or other implement used in violation of any such provision may be considered the owner thereof for the purpose of any complaint brought to procure condemnation or forfeiture of any such implement, when the owner is unknown to the informer or prosecuting officer. An appeal may be taken by any party aggrieved, from any judgment upon any such complaint, within fifteen days, to a return day of the superior court in the judicial district in which judgment was rendered, which shall be not less than twelve or more than thirty days after the service thereof, provided the party appealing shall give sufficient bond, with surety for costs, to the adverse party; and the appellate court may proceed in the disposition of such cause in the same manner as in any in rem proceeding.(1949 Rev., S. 4939; 1957, P.A. 223; 1959, P.A. 398, S. 22; 1971, P.A. 179, S. 19; 872, S. 304; P.A. 76-436, S. 601, 681; P.A. 82-472, S. 102, 183.)History: 1959 act required that proceeds from sale of forfeited implements be credited to general fund rather than to fish fund; 1971 acts changed time for taking appeal from the next or “next but one” return date to a day between 12 and 30 days after service and required that appeal be made within 15 days after judgment, and replaced references to board of fisheries and game, its members and its director with references to commissioner and department of environmental protection and department agents; P.A. 76-436 replaced court of common pleas with superior court and added reference to judicial districts, effective July 1, 1978; P.A. 82-472 eliminated obsolete reference to the “county” in which judgment was rendered in the provision concerning appeals.Section upheld and various points discussed. 90 C. 584. Cited. 37 C. 320; 79 C. 701; 318 U.S. 151.
CT Gen Stat § 26-130 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 26 - Fisheries and Game|Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game|Section 26-130 - Sale of fish for stocking; sale of fish management commodities; sale of trout eggs.

 No fish shall be furnished by the state for stocking any stream, river, pond or lake from which the taking of fish is prohibited by the owner or lessee; provided, if the state, in the opinion of the commissioner, has on hand at any time more fish than are required in any season for stocking streams, rivers, ponds or lakes from which the taking of fish is not prohibited, the commissioner may sell such surplus fish, or such fish as exceed hatchery rearing capacity, at the cost of such fish as estimated by him, to any person in the state for use for stocking any stream, river, pond or lake in the state, whether or not such water is open to public fishing. To encourage landowners to engage in fish management practices in waters over which they have control, the commissioner is authorized to sell to such landowners from stock on hand in the department, at a cost to be estimated by him, fish foods, chemicals and compounds used in fisheries management, lake and pond bottom contour maps and related incidental commodities. If the state, in the opinion of the commissioner, has on hand surplus, disease-free fish or fish eggs which exceed hatchery capacity, the commissioner may sell such surplus fish or fish eggs to commercial hatcheries, at a cost estimated by him to be competitive with the cost of such fish or fish eggs if purchased from commercial hatcheries. The proceeds of each such sale shall be remitted to the State Treasurer and shall be applied to the General Fund.(1949 Rev., S. 4927; 1957, P.A. 281, S. 1; 1959, P.A. 398, S. 17; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 305; P.A. 79-50; P.A. 90-166, S. 1.)History: 1959 act required that proceeds from sale of listed fish management materials be deposited in general fund rather than in fish fund; 1971 act replaced references to board of fisheries and game and its director with references to environmental protection department and commissioner; P.A. 79-50 authorized sale of surplus trout eggs by commissioner; P.A. 90-166 authorized sale of surplus fish or fish eggs where previously only “trout eggs” could be sold and deleted the requirement that the sale be made to hatcheries only in the state.
CT Gen Stat § 26-131 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 26 - Fisheries and Game|Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game|Section 26-131 - Registration of private waters. Taking of fish without license.

 Any owner of private waters who desires to remove fish from such waters as provided for in this section shall apply to the commissioner for a certificate of registration of such private waters on a form furnished by the commissioner. Such applicant shall furnish the commissioner such information, under oath, as he deems necessary to carry out the provisions of this section. There shall be a fee of seventy dollars for the examination and permanent registration of such private waters by the commissioner. Any owner of private waters which have been so registered may take, or permit guests to take, any species of fish from such waters at any season of the year, without a license, provided such waters have not been stocked at expense to the state and provided the commissioner may make regulations governing and prescribing the methods of taking such fish and the conditions under which such fish may be removed from the premises, possessed and transported. The owner of such registered waters shall notify the commissioner in writing, within forty-eight hours, of any change in ownership or other conditions which would invalidate the registration of such water as private waters under the provisions of this section. Any person who holds such a certificate of registration and who violates any provision of this section or any regulation issued by the commissioner as herein authorized shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars and the commissioner may suspend or revoke such certificate.(1949 Rev., S. 4940; 1955, S. 2516d; 1959, P.A. 398, S. 18; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 306; Nov. Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-3, S. 18, 21; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-1, S. 100.)History: 1959 act required that fees be credited to general fund rather than to fish fund; 1971 act replaced references to board of fisheries and game and its director with references to environmental protection commissioner; Nov. Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-3 amended section to increase the fee for the registration of private waters under this section from $5 to $50, to make such registration permanent and to delete a requirement that all moneys received by the state therefor be deposited in the general fund; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-1 increased examination and registration fee from $50 to $70, effective January 1, 2003.
CT Gen Stat § 26-132 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 26 - Fisheries and Game|Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game|Section 26-132 - Privately stocked waters.

 Upon request by any association owning or controlling the fishing rights in any stream or pond the waters of which are stocked with fish by such association at no expense to the state, the commissioner may prescribe, by written regulation, the open and closed seasons, the daily creel and season limits and the legal length for all species of fish taken from such waters, provided no public interest in such waters shall be thereby adversely affected and provided no weir, dam or other obstruction shall be erected for the purpose of stopping the free passage of fish up or down stream. Any person who violates any such regulation shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars and the commissioner may revoke or suspend any license issued by the commissioner to such person.(1949 Rev., S. 4852; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 307.)History: 1971 act replaced references to board of fisheries and game with references to environmental protection commissioner.