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NH Rev Stat § 211:17-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Fish and Game|Title 211 - Fish, Shellfish, Lobsters and Crabs|Section 211:17-a - Ice Fishing.

    211:17-a Ice Fishing. –||I. Any person owning or placing a smelt shanty or bob-house on the ice for the purpose of ice fishing shall mark clearly on the outside of the door of said structure the owner's name and address. Any person who shall violate the provisions of this paragraph shall be guilty of a violation, and his hunting and fishing privileges may be suspended for a period of 30 days.||II. Any owner of a smelt shanty or bob-house who shall allow the structure to remain on public property or public waters or on the property of another without permission after April 1 shall be guilty of a violation, and such owner's fishing license shall be suspended for one year. The fish and game department may claim such property and its contents and sell at a public auction to be held at the discretion of the executive director, or, if of no value and the owner cannot be apprehended, the structure and its contents may be destroyed.||III. No person owning or placing a smelt shanty or bob-house on the ice for the purpose of ice fishing shall conspire with another to burn said bob-house or smelt shanty thereon. Whoever violates the provisions of this paragraph shall be guilty of a violation.|||Source. 1957, 82:1. 1963, 92:1. 1969, 38:1. 1971, 66:1. 1973, 531:58. 1993, 236:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 211:17-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Fish and Game|Title 211 - Fish, Shellfish, Lobsters and Crabs|Section 211:17-b - Operation of Motor Vehicles, Snowmobiles, or OHRVs on Ice on Great Bay.

    211:17-b Operation of Motor Vehicles, Snowmobiles, or OHRVs on Ice on Great Bay. –||No person shall drive a motor vehicle, snowmobile, or OHRV on the ice on Great Bay, except that any person who holds a New Hampshire recreational saltwater license under RSA 214:9, XVI may do so, provided that he or she does not drive or park his or her vehicle any closer than 300 feet to any occupied so-called bob-house, fishing shanty, or fishing hole other than the one the person occupies. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any person engaged in emergency rescue operations or public service of any description. No person driving a motor vehicle, snowmobile, or OHRV on the ice on Great Bay shall operate said vehicle at a speed greater than 10 miles per hour. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be guilty of a violation.|||Source. 1959, 306:3. 1969, 209:1. 1973, 531:59. 1983, 449:22. 2005, 210:10. 2009, 103:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2011; 144:132, eff. Jan. 1, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 211:17-c (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Fish and Game|Title 211 - Fish, Shellfish, Lobsters and Crabs|Section 211:17-c - Marking Fishing Holes in Ice on Great Bay.

    211:17-c Marking Fishing Holes in Ice on Great Bay. –||Whoever by himself or others cuts a fishing hole larger than 112 square inches in area in the ice on Great Bay and leaves the same unattended, unless covered by a bob-house, without first marking the same with a stake extending at least 18 inches above the ice shall be guilty of a violation.|||Source. 1963, 218:1. 1973, 531:60, eff. Oct. 31, 1973 at 11:59 p.m.|
NH Rev Stat § 211:18-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Fish and Game|Title 211 - Fish, Shellfish, Lobsters and Crabs|Section 211:18-a - Penalty, Loss of License.

    211:18-a Penalty, Loss of License. –||In addition to any other penalty any lobster license holder convicted of assaulting an enforcement officer or wilfully damaging any boat or motor used by an enforcement officer shall lose his lobster license for one year.|||Source. 1965, 170:2, eff. June 22, 1965.|
NH Rev Stat § 211:18-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Fish and Game|Title 211 - Fish, Shellfish, Lobsters and Crabs|Section 211:18-b - Repealed by 1997, 10:25, I, eff. Jan. 1, 1998.

    211:18-b Repealed by 1997, 10:25, I, eff. Jan. 1, 1998. –|
NH Rev Stat § 211:18-c (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Fish and Game|Title 211 - Fish, Shellfish, Lobsters and Crabs|Section 211:18-c - Crabs.

    211:18-c Crabs. –||Notwithstanding any provisions of this chapter to the contrary any person may take 12 crabs a day by angling, diving, or by hand without a license.|||Source. 1971, 240:1. 1987, 62:5, eff. April 29, 1987.|
NH Rev Stat § 211:18-d (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Fish and Game|Title 211 - Fish, Shellfish, Lobsters and Crabs|Section 211:18-d - Penalty for Misuse of Lobster and Crab License.

    211:18-d Penalty for Misuse of Lobster and Crab License. –||Any person who furnishes to another person or permits another person to have or use a lobster and crab license issued to himself or any other person or changes or alters such license or uses a license issued to another person or makes a false statement in application to obtain said license shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.|||Source. 1977, 286:2, eff. June 26, 1977.|
NH Rev Stat § 211:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Fish and Game|Title 211 - Fish, Shellfish, Lobsters and Crabs|Section 211:19 - Repealed by 1973, 580:2, eff. July 5, 1973.

    211:19 Repealed by 1973, 580:2, eff. July 5, 1973. –|
NH Rev Stat § 211:19-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Fish and Game|Title 211 - Fish, Shellfish, Lobsters and Crabs|Section 211:19-a - Rye Harbor, Prohibition.

    211:19-a Rye Harbor, Prohibition. –||I. The taking of lobsters and crabs in Rye Harbor by any person is forbidden. No lobster or crab trap buoys may be placed in the harbor or the approach channel to the harbor. A fisherman has 24 hours to remove his or her gear from restricted areas after an authorized enforcement officer makes a verbal request to the fisherman to remove said gear. An extension may be granted in the case of rough seas or thick fog.||II. State conservation officers and persons appointed by the Pease development authority, division of ports and harbors shall enforce the provisions of this section, and may remove gear from the restricted area if the verbal request authorized in paragraph I of this section is ignored.||III. Rye Harbor as used in this section means the area below high water mark inside the northeast and southwest breakwater on the seashore at Rye, and an area west of an imaginary line beginning 200 feet seaward from the day marker on the northeast jetty on the northeast boundary of the channel and running northeasterly at right angles to the northeast boundary of the channel to Ragged Neck point. The harbor master may designate and buoy at his discretion a channel, at least 100 feet wide, running from the jetties at the harbor entrance to a point in the vicinity of the whistling buoy. Said channel as designated shall be the approach channel to Rye Harbor.||IV. Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be guilty of a violation and his license to trap lobsters shall be suspended for a minimum of 30 days.|||Source. 1965, 170:1. 1969, 261:1. 1973, 531:61. 2001, 290:9, eff. July 1, 2001.|
NH Rev Stat § 211:20 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Fish and Game|Title 211 - Fish, Shellfish, Lobsters and Crabs|Section 211:20 - Helper's License.

    211:20 Helper's License. –||Any person licensed under the provisions of RSA 211:18 may get a helper's license which entitles the person to have the help of a person in the taking of lobsters or crabs. The helper's license may be transferred to any one helper employed by the licensee, but may not be transferred to a person who previously had a lobster license which is under suspension. A helper may assist, set, or haul pots or traps or any other device used in the taking of lobsters and crabs only in the presence of and aboard the boat of a person licensed under the provisions of RSA 211:18, and who holds a valid helper's license. The executive director shall adopt rules pursuant to RSA 541-A relative to the fee for a helper's license and the terms and restrictions of a helper's license to comply with lobster trap limits established under the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission management plan for American lobster relative to reduced fishing effort.|||Source. 1953, 199:2. RSA 211:20. 1965, 305:2. 1971, 146:1. 1997, 10:3. 2000, 256:1, eff. Aug. 11, 2000. 2015, 186:12, eff. July 1, 2015.|
NH Rev Stat § 211:21 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Fish and Game|Title 211 - Fish, Shellfish, Lobsters and Crabs|Section 211:21 - Revocation; Suspension.

    211:21 Revocation;  Suspension. –||The executive director may revoke or suspend the lobster and crab license of any person who has been found guilty in any court of a violation of any provision of this chapter or any rule adopted under this chapter by the executive director. If an appeal is taken the license shall be suspended pending the disposition of said case and for not more than one year thereafter from date of conviction by the higher court. The executive director shall revoke or suspend the license of any person who has been found guilty in any court a second time within 5 years of the first finding of guilt, of a violation of any such laws or regulations, for a period of not less than one, nor more than 3 years from the date of such finding or conviction. The executive director may order any license to be suspended or revoked, after due hearing, for any cause that he may deem sufficient. Any person whose license has been revoked or suspended shall not accompany any licensed fisherman or assist him in any way while he is engaged in taking or transporting lobsters or crabs.|||Source. RL 245:43. 1950, 12:3. RSA 211:21. 1955, 308:7. 2009, 11:2, eff. June 16, 2009.|
NH Rev Stat § 211:22 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Fish and Game|Title 211 - Fish, Shellfish, Lobsters and Crabs|Section 211:22 - Removal of Devices.

    211:22 Removal of Devices. –||Any person whose license has been suspended shall within 5 days remove from the waters all lobster traps, pots, cars, or any device used in taking or storing of lobsters and crabs. Said lobster traps, pots, cars or devices shall be taken to a place of storage on the shore and shall be inspected by a conservation officer and such traps, pots, cars or devices shall not be placed in the water again by any other person until they have been inspected by a conservation officer and rebranded with the last name and initials of the new user in a manner satisfactory to the conservation officer.|||Source. 1947, 278:1. 1950, 12:4, eff. May 18, 1950.|
NH Rev Stat § 211:23 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Fish and Game|Title 211 - Fish, Shellfish, Lobsters and Crabs|Section 211:23 - Repealed by 2004, 166:6, eff. May 24, 2004.

    211:23 Repealed by 2004, 166:6, eff. May 24, 2004. –|
NH Rev Stat § 211:23-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Fish and Game|Title 211 - Fish, Shellfish, Lobsters and Crabs|Section 211:23-a - Prohibited Methods of Taking.

    211:23-a Prohibited Methods of Taking. –||No person shall at any time take from any waters under the jurisdiction of this state any lobsters by diving, spearing or dipping.|||Source. 1955, 324:5, eff. Aug. 5, 1955.|
NH Rev Stat § 211:24 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Fish and Game|Title 211 - Fish, Shellfish, Lobsters and Crabs|Section 211:24 - Repealed by 1977, 189:3, eff. Aug. 13, 1977.

    211:24 Repealed by 1977, 189:3, eff. Aug. 13, 1977. –|
NH Rev Stat § 211:25 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Fish and Game|Title 211 - Fish, Shellfish, Lobsters and Crabs|Section 211:25 - Spawn, Etc.

    211:25 Spawn, Etc. –||No person shall remove spawn from any female lobster and no person shall take, serve, have in his possession, sell, or offer for sale any female lobster carrying spawn or any lobster spawn.|||Source. RL 245:46. RSA 211:25. 1977, 189:1, eff. Aug. 13, 1977.|
NH Rev Stat § 211:26 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Fish and Game|Title 211 - Fish, Shellfish, Lobsters and Crabs|Section 211:26 - Female Lobsters.

    211:26 Female Lobsters. –||Whoever takes, buys, sells, or has in his possession any female lobster bearing eggs shall be guilty of a violation and, in addition, shall be guilty of a violation for each additional oviparous female lobster involved. However, a person who takes any such female lobster and immediately returns it alive to the waters from which it was taken is not subject to the penalty. This section shall not apply to lobsters spawning in cars or pounds, if they are, upon discovery, immediately liberated alive in the coastal waters; nor shall anything herein contained be construed as prohibiting the executive director or his agents from possessing and transporting female lobsters carrying spawn for propagation purposes.|||Source. 1950, 12:7. RSA 211:26. 1965, 305:3. 1973, 531:62. 1977, 189:2, eff. Aug. 13, 1977.|
NH Rev Stat § 211:27 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Fish and Game|Title 211 - Fish, Shellfish, Lobsters and Crabs|Section 211:27 - Legal Length; Rulemaking.

    211:27 Legal Length;  Rulemaking. –||I. No person may transport, buy, sell, give away, or expose for sale, or possess for any purpose, any lobster less than the minimum legal length alive or dead, cooked or uncooked, measuring from the rear of the eye socket along a line parallel to the center line of the body shell to the rear end of the body shell. The minimum legal length shall be determined in rules adopted by the executive director under RSA 211:62. This paragraph shall not apply to uncooked shell-on lobster tails processed onshore in a New Hampshire facility permitted under RSA 211:38-a or a similar facility outside of New Hampshire.||II. (a) Whoever ships, transports, carries, buys, gives away, sells, or exposes for sale, or possesses for any purpose, lobster meat, which has been cooked, before or after the meat has been taken from the shell, without the tail meat being whole and intact, and of a length determined in rules adopted by the executive director under RSA 211:62, shall be guilty of a violation of this section.||(b) All lobster meat shall be delivered in containers marked as prescribed by rules adopted by the executive director.||(c) For the purpose of this paragraph cooked lobster meat taken from the shell shall be laid out straight and measured from end to end and it shall not include the small part that is on the body end of the tail meat. ||III. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs I and II, no person licensed pursuant to RSA 211:18 shall take, possess, or land any lobster greater than the maximum legal length from or on the waters under the jurisdiction of the state.||(b) A person not licensed to take lobster in accordance with RSA 211:18 may possess, transport, or land in accordance with RSA 211:49-a, RSA 211:49-aa, RSA 211:49-b, RSA 211:49-c, and RSA 211:49-d lobster greater than the maximum legal length if the lobster was legally taken from waters outside the jurisdiction of the state.||(c) The maximum length shall be measured from the rear of the eye socket along a line parallel to the center line of the body shell to the rear end of the body shell. The maximum legal length shall be determined by rules adopted by the executive director under RSA 211:62.||(d) All lobster possessed in accordance with this paragraph shall be whole and intact.|||Source. RL 245:47. 1943, 114:1. 1950, 12:8. RSA 211:27. 1965, 305:4. 1967, 48:4. 1983, 85:1. 1989, 78:1. 1998, 349:1. 2010, 56:2, eff. July 1, 2010. 2015, 101:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2016.|
NH Rev Stat § 211:28 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Fish and Game|Title 211 - Fish, Shellfish, Lobsters and Crabs|Section 211:28 - Exceptions.

    211:28 Exceptions. –||Nothing in the provisions of RSA 211:27 shall be construed to prevent hotels or restaurants serving cooked lobster to guests for immediate consumption as food from chopping meat taken from lobster of legal length in reasonable quantities for current use; nor shall RSA 211:27 prevent an individual from chopping lobster meat for immediate consumption for himself, his family or his guests.|||Source. 1950, 12:9, eff. May 18, 1950.|
NH Rev Stat § 211:29 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Fish and Game|Title 211 - Fish, Shellfish, Lobsters and Crabs|Section 211:29 - Lobster Meat.

    211:29 Lobster Meat. –||No person, firm or corporation shall transport, possess or offer for sale lobster meat from sources outside the jurisdiction of this state unless such meat shall comply with RSA 211:27. The inclusion of any such meat of less than the prescribed legal length within any container, package, receptacle or tray shall subject all such meat included in said container, package, receptacle, or tray to be forfeited and the possessor of such meat shall be subject to the penalty imposed for violation of RSA 211:27. Provided, however, that the provisions of this section shall not prohibit the sale of lobsters canned in hermetically sealed cans not requiring refrigeration when the contents of the cans do not weigh over eight ounces net. Nothing in the provisions of this section or RSA 211:27 shall prohibit the processing and distributing within the state by packers or processors located within or without the state of processed lobster meat for the purpose of canning or freezing for resale as processed stews, newburgs, chowders or pies, or prohibit wholesalers and retailers from selling processed lobster meat packed in stews, newburgs, chowders or pies providing they are licensed as required by RSA 211:38.|||Source. 1951, 200:3; 231:1. RSA 211:29. 1955, 308:9. 1961, 145:1, eff. May 26, 1961.|
NH Rev Stat § 211:30 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Fish and Game|Title 211 - Fish, Shellfish, Lobsters and Crabs|Section 211:30 - Mutilated Lobsters.

    211:30 Mutilated Lobsters. –||The possession of lobsters, or parts thereof, alive or dead, cooked or uncooked, mutilated in such manner as to make accurate measurements as prescribed in this chapter impossible, shall be prima facie evidence that they are not of required legal length. Provided that this section shall not apply to:||I. Hotels, restaurants, or individuals having in possession chopped lobster meat as provided in RSA 211:28 or lobster processed under a lobster tail permit in accordance with RSA 211:38-a.||II. Uncooked shell-on lobster tails processed outside of New Hampshire and offered for sale in this state.|||Source. 1951, 200:3, par. 47-c. 2010, 56:3, eff. July 1, 2010. 2015, 101:2, eff. Jan. 1, 2016.|
NH Rev Stat § 211:31 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Fish and Game|Title 211 - Fish, Shellfish, Lobsters and Crabs|Section 211:31 - Limitation.

    211:31 Limitation. –||I. No person, except the owner or a conservation officer, shall take up, lift, molest, have in his possession, or transfer any pot, trap, car or other contrivance that is set for the taking or holding of lobsters or crabs, nor take, remove or carry away from the beach or shore, any such pot, trap, car or other contrivance or warp or buoy without the written permission of the owner. In addition to the penalty for violation of this section, said person, if he holds a license, shall lose said license for one year.||II. The executive director of the fish and game department shall post sufficient permanent signs in proper places as the executive director deems necessary to inform the public of the provisions of RSA 211:31, I.|||Source. RL 245:48. 1951, 200:4. RSA 211:31. 1975, 301:1, eff. June 7, 1975.|
NH Rev Stat § 211:32 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Fish and Game|Title 211 - Fish, Shellfish, Lobsters and Crabs|Section 211:32 - Marking Pots and Traps.

    211:32 Marking Pots and Traps. –||No person shall set any pot or trap for any lobster or crab without having the pot or trap and buoy attached, plainly carved or branded with his last name and initials. No person shall use or set in any tidal water any car or other contrivance for holding or keeping lobsters or crabs without having such car or contrivance plainly marked with the last name and initials carved or branded thereon. Any pots, traps, cars or other contrivance used to catch or store lobsters or crabs in violation of any provision hereof and any lobsters or crabs therein shall be forfeited.|||Source. RL 245:49. 1950, 12:10, eff. May 18, 1950.|
NH Rev Stat § 211:33 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Fish and Game|Title 211 - Fish, Shellfish, Lobsters and Crabs|Section 211:33 - Distinctive Colors.

    211:33 Distinctive Colors. –||Each applicant for a lobster and crab license shall state the color scheme or other special markings of the buoys desired to be used by him. These colors, if approved by the executive director, shall be set forth in his license, and all buoys used by the licensee shall be marked accordingly. Also, each lobster boat must have painted said colors on port and starboard bow in a section not less than one foot square, or a freshly painted buoy set at the highest point on the boat excluding the mast and visible for 360 degrees. Such buoy or colors must be permanently attached at all times that lobster gear fished under that license is in the water.|||Source. 1950, 12:11. 1951, 200:5. RSA 211:33. 1972, 25:1. 1975, 85:1, eff. June 14, 1975.|
NH Rev Stat § 211:34 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Fish and Game|Title 211 - Fish, Shellfish, Lobsters and Crabs|Section 211:34 - Traps on Trawls.

    211:34 Traps on Trawls. –||No pot, trap or other contrivance for taking or holding lobsters or crabs shall be set or buoyed other than plainly and separately except as hereinbefore provided. When pots, traps, or other contrivances are set on trawls, buoys plainly marked as provided in RSA 211:32 and 33 shall be set on both ends of the trawls. Pot or trap trawls used for taking lobsters and crabs which contain less than 5 pots or traps may be plainly marked on one end.|||Source. 1951, 200:6. 1997, 10:4. 2008, 320:1, eff. Aug. 31, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 211:35 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Fish and Game|Title 211 - Fish, Shellfish, Lobsters and Crabs|Section 211:35 - Repealed by 1985, 40:4, I, eff. June 8, 1985.

    211:35 Repealed by 1985, 40:4, I, eff. June 8, 1985. –|
NH Rev Stat § 211:36 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVIII - Fish and Game|Title 211 - Fish, Shellfish, Lobsters and Crabs|Section 211:36 - Repealed by 1985, 40:4, II, eff. June 8, 1985.

    211:36 Repealed by 1985, 40:4, II, eff. June 8, 1985. –|