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2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game › Section 26-86b. - Tags. Report of kill.

The commissioner shall issue tags to be attached to the carcass of any deer killed under the provisions of sections 26-82 and 26-86a to 26-86c, inclusive, which tag shall be immediately attached to such deer and remain affixed until such carcass is dressed and butchered and packaged for consumption. Each person so taking deer shall, within twenty-four hours, report such kill to the commissioner on a form furnished by him.
(1959, P.A. 227, S. 3; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 277; P.A. 74-151, S. 4, 7.)
History: 1971 act replaced references to board of fisheries and game with references to environmental protection commissioner; P.A. 74-151 added reference to Sec. 26-86 and required that tags remain affixed until carcass is packaged for consumption; (Revisor's note: In 1993 an obsolete reference to repealed Sec. 26-86d was replaced editorially by the Revisors with reference to Sec. 26-86c).
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game › Section 26-86e. - Regulation of hunting of doe deer.

The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may issue regulations prohibiting the hunting, wounding, killing or possession of doe deer on a state-wide, county or described-area basis, when he finds such action necessary to preserve reasonably adequate breeding stock.
(1963, P.A. 229; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 279; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)
History: 1971 act replaced state board of fisheries and game with commissioner of environmental protection; 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.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game › Section 26-86f. - Hunting of fawn deer prohibited.

No person shall hunt, wound, kill or remove from the wild any fawn deer at any time, except that such deer found wounded or injured may, with due care, be removed from the wild for the purpose of having the wounds or injuries treated, and all such deer shall, within twenty-four hours after such removal, be turned over to a representative of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection for such disposition as shall be determined by the commissioner.
(1963, P.A. 230; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 280; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)
History: 1971 act replaced state board of fisheries and game with department of environmental protection and its director with commissioner of environmental protection; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Environmental Protection” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Department of Energy and Environmental Protection”, effective July 1, 2011.
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.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game › Section 26-87. - Taking rabbits by use of ferrets. Authorization. Penalties.

The commissioner may authorize the commissioner's conservation officers or other agents to take rabbits by the use of ferrets for the purpose of restocking and redistribution. Any person who takes any rabbit by the use of a ferret, except as authorized in this section, shall be fined not more than two hundred fifty dollars, and the possession of each rabbit taken by the use of a ferret, except as so authorized, shall constitute a separate offense.
(1949 Rev., S. 4906; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 281; P.A. 07-217, S. 124; P.A. 12-80, S. 26.)
History: 1971 act replaced reference to board of fisheries and game with reference to environmental protection commissioner; P.A. 07-217 made technical changes, effective July 12, 2007; P.A. 12-80 replaced penalty of a fine of not less than $10 or more than $50 or imprisonment of not more than 30 days or both with a fine of not more than $250.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game › Section 26-88. - Use of explosives.

No person shall take or attempt to take any gray squirrel, rabbit or other fur-bearing animal protected by law by the use of gunpowder, dynamite or other explosive compound, or by fire, smoke, brimstone, sulphur, gas or chemical, or by digging from any hole or den, provided nothing herein shall be construed to prevent the shooting of any gray squirrel or rabbit or fur-bearing animal. Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be guilty of a class C misdemeanor.
(1949 Rev., S. 4907; P.A. 12-80, S. 114.)
History: P.A. 12-80 added provision re penalty of a class C misdemeanor for violation of section.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game › Section 26-92. - Wild birds other than game birds protected, exception. Game birds defined.

No person shall catch, kill or purchase or attempt to catch, kill or purchase, sell, offer or expose for sale or have in possession, living or dead, any wild bird other than a game bird, or purchase or attempt to purchase, sell, offer or expose for sale or have in possession any part of any such bird or of the plumage thereof except as acquired under the provisions of this chapter. For the purposes of this section, the following shall be considered game birds: The anatidae, or waterfowl, including brant, wild ducks and geese; the rallidae, or rails, including coots, gallinules and sora and other rails; the limicolae, or shore birds, including snipe and woodcock; the gallinae, including wild turkeys, grouse, prairie chickens, pheasants, partridge and quail; the corvidae, including crows. No person shall take or destroy any nest or any egg of any wild bird or game bird. No person shall possess any nest or egg of any wild or game bird. English sparrows, starlings and, when found depredating ornamental trees, agriculture crops, livestock or wildlife, or when concentrated in such numbers as to constitute a public health or public safety hazard, crows, rock doves, monk parakeets and brown-headed cowbirds shall not be included among the birds protected by this section. Any conservation officer and any other officer having authority to serve criminal process shall have the same powers relating to violations of the provisions of this section as are conferred by section 26-6.
(1949 Rev., S. 4916; 1951, S. 2504d; 1963, P.A. 509; P.A. 78-97; P.A. 03-192, S. 8; P.A. 04-109, S. 16; P.A. 05-288, S. 118.)
History: 1963 act deleted from list of game birds “the columbidae, including the mourning dove but excluding the street pigeon”; P.A. 78-97 forbade “attempts” to catch, kill or purchase prohibited birds and revised list, deleting “the gruidae, or cranes, including little brown, sandhill and whooping cranes”, “avocets, curlews, dowitchers, godwits, knots, oyster catchers, phalaropes, plovers, sandpipers”, “stilts, surf birds, turnstones, willet”, “yellow-legs”, and “when destroying poultry, hawks” and clarified treatment of crows; P.A. 03-192 expanded exception to protection of wild bird or game bird to include crows, rock doves, monk parakeets and brown-headed cowbirds when found depredating ornamental trees, agriculture crops, livestock or wildlife or when constituting a public health or safety hazard, replaced “needlessly destroy” with “destroy” re nest or egg of wild bird or game bird and made technical and conforming changes; P.A. 04-109 made a technical change, effective May 21, 2004; P.A. 05-288 made a technical change, effective July 13, 2005.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game › Section 26-92a. - State purchase of game birds.

The purchase by the state of game birds from out-of-state bidders shall be subject to the same terms and conditions, other than those relating to the hatching and raising of such birds, which regulate the purchase by such state of game birds from bidders in this state.
(P.A. 78-39.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game › Section 26-93. - Hunting of bald eagle prohibited. Disturbance of nest prohibited. Fine. No access area for bald eagle. Violation and fine or imprisonment.

Any person who disturbs, hunts, takes, kills or attempts to kill any bald eagle or disturbs any active bald eagle nest shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days or both. Any person who enters a posted no access area for a bald eagle or a posted no access area for an active bald eagle nest shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.
(1949 Rev., S. 4917; P.A. 83-191, S. 6, 9; P.A. 03-192, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 83-191 made disturbance, molestation or harassment of bald eagles subject to the penalty; P.A. 03-192 deleted “molests, harasses”, added provision prohibiting disturbance of a bald eagle nest, increased fine from $100 to $1,000 re such disturbance or killing of a bald eagle and added provision re fine or imprisonment for entering a no access area.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game › Section 26-94. - Hunting of swan prohibited.

Any person who hunts, takes, wounds or kills or attempts to hunt, take, wound or kill any species of swan, including the whistling swan (Cygnus columbianus), the trumpeter swan (Cygnus buccinator) and the mute swan (Stehenelides olor), shall be fined not more than two hundred fifty dollars.
(1955, S. 2505d; P.A. 12-80, S. 28.)
History: P.A. 12-80 replaced penalty of a fine of not more than $100 or imprisonment of not more than 30 days or both with a fine of not more than $250.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game › Section 26-95. - Trapping of birds.

No person shall trap, net or snare any bird for which a closed season is provided or which is protected by statute, or set, bait, place or use any net, trap, snare or other device for the purpose of taking any bird. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the setting of traps on poles eight or more feet from the ground for the purpose of taking predatory birds not protected by law, provided the commissioner may issue permits authorizing the taking, by such method as he determines, such birds as become a nuisance or birds that should be controlled because of the damage they do to property, poultry, domestic animals and agricultural crops. No permit shall be required under the provisions hereof by persons authorized by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to trap birds for the purpose of banding and release provided the commissioner may require such authorized persons to obtain a permit to trap any species of bird listed as endangered, threatened or of special concern as defined in section 26-304.
(1949 Rev., S. 4918; 1957, P.A. 339; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 283; P.A. 90-166, S. 4.)
History: 1971 act replaced reference to director of state board of fisheries and game with reference to environmental protection commissioner; P.A. 90-166 authorized the commissioner to require persons to obtain a permit to trap any species of bird which is endangered, threatened or of special concern.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game › Section 26-96. - Trap shooting.

No person shall keep, expose, let loose or suffer to escape any bird or fowl for the purpose of having it shot at for sport, gain, the trial of skill of marksmen or any other purpose, nor shall any person shoot at any bird or fowl that has been kept, exposed, let loose or allowed to escape for the purpose of being shot at. The provisions of this section shall not prohibit the release of legally propagated game birds or the subsequent shooting of such birds during the open season or any extension of such open season.
(1949 Rev., S. 4919.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game › Section 26-97. - Killing game birds in Westport Fire District prohibited. Penalty.

Any person who kills any game bird within the limits of the Westport Fire District in the town of Westport shall be fined not less than one dollar or more than fifty dollars.
(1949 Rev., S. 5010; P.A. 07-217, S. 125.)
History: P.A. 07-217 made a technical change, effective July 12, 2007.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game › Section 26-98. - Penalty.

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, or who makes any material false statement in procuring any permit, shall be fined not more than two hundred fifty dollars, and the possession of each bird or part thereof, taken or possessed in violation of any such provision, shall constitute a separate offense.
(1949 Rev., S. 4921; 1953, S. 2506d; 1957, P.A. 272; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 284; P.A. 12-80, S. 29.)
History: 1971 act replaced reference to board of fisheries and game with reference to environmental protection commissioner; P.A. 12-80 replaced penalty of a fine of not less than $10 or more than $200 or imprisonment of not more than 30 days or both with a fine of not more than $250.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game › Section 26-99. - Establishment of fish and game refuges.

The commissioner may establish state fish and game refuges and may, in the name and for the use of the state, lease any tract of land, stream, lake, pond or part thereof in the state suitable for the propagation and preservation of fish and game and may accept any gift of any interest in any land, stream, lake, pond or part thereof or any personal property to be used for the purpose of propagating or protecting wildlife upon such conditions as may be agreed upon between the donor and the commissioner, subject to the approval of the Attorney General, concerning any condition in relation to the use of the principal of any such gift or any income therefrom, and the commissioner may exercise all of the authority of any owner of any such property for such purposes. No provision of this section shall be construed as limiting the right of the donor to exercise all of the rights incident to ownership of such property, except as such rights may be limited by the conditions of his gift.
(1949 Rev., S. 4922; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 285.)
History: 1971 act substituted references to environmental protection commissioner for references to board of fisheries and game.
See Sec. 26-69 re wildlife management practices.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game › Section 26-100. - Posting notices.

The commissioner shall cause such notices to be posted along or near the boundary lines of fish and wildlife refuges, closed areas, management areas, fish hatcheries, fish rearing pools and fish retaining ponds forbidding entrance therein as will, in his judgment, fairly warn any unauthorized person not to enter upon such premises; but the removal or destruction of such notices after posting shall not be a defense in any prosecution under this chapter.
(1949 Rev., S. 4923; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 286.)
History: 1971 act substituted references to environmental protection commissioner for references to board of fisheries and game.
See Sec. 26-21 re penalty for destruction of notice or proclamation.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game › Section 26-101. - Wildlife refuges and closed areas.

The commissioner may establish wildlife refuges, closed areas or safety zones on public lands or waters or, providing he first obtains the necessary written consent, on private lands and waters. The commissioner may close any such area, or portion of any such area, to hunting, trapping, fishing, other public use, or trespassing, when he determines such closure to be necessary for the management of any wildlife or plant species or for public safety. The commissioner shall cause notice of such closure, including the length of any such closure, to be posted near the boundary lines or near any area, or portion of any area, closed pursuant to this section. Any person who uses any area in violation of any such notice of closure shall be guilty of a class D misdemeanor.
(1955, S. 2482d, 2507d; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 287; P.A. 97-250, S. 2; P.A. 12-80, S. 138.)
History: 1971 act substituted references to environmental protection commissioner for references to board of fisheries and game; P.A. 97-250 made technical and grammatical changes, added criteria for closure of areas under this section, required posting of notice of such closure and provided that the penalty under this section applies in the case of a use of an area in violation of such notice; P.A. 12-80 changed penalty from a fine of not more than $200 or imprisonment of not more than 60 days or both to a class D misdemeanor.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game › Section 26-102. - Fish spawning areas and refuges.

The commissioner may establish fish spawning areas and refuges on any waters; and he may establish closed areas and safety zones on public lands and waters and, with the consent of the owner, on private lands and waters, and close any such area to fishing and trespassing. The commissioner shall have emergency authority to declare a closed season on any species of fish threatened with undue depletion from any cause and, the provisions of section 26-116 notwithstanding, if such cause is any person, firm or corporation engaged in commercial fishing activity, the commissioner shall have the additional emergency power to establish prescribed conditions for the operation of such commercial fishing activity, or suspend or prohibit the right of such person, firm or corporation to operate within such waters for such period of time as the commissioner deems necessary. The commissioner may, if he deems it necessary, close any waters, or portions thereof, in the inland district to fishing for limited periods of time.
(1955, S. 2508d; February, 1965, P.A. 253, S. 1; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 288.)
History: 1965 act added provisions granting board of fisheries and game emergency power to regulate commercial fishing activity; 1971 act substituted references to environmental protection commissioner for references to state board of fisheries and game.
See Sec. 26-117 re fines for violation.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game › Section 26-103. - Management and preservation of islands in and marshes in or bordering the Housatonic River.

All islands in the Housatonic River and all marshes in or bordering the Housatonic River, extending from the mouth of the river to the upper limits of its tidal fluctuation, are set aside as wildlife habitats and shall be under the exclusive jurisdiction and control of the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection. The commissioner shall have the same powers in reference to such islands and marshes as are provided in section 26-16. Such islands or marshes or such portions thereof as are recorded in private ownership shall not be included under the jurisdiction of the commissioner, but such jurisdiction shall extend to all such islands and marshes or portions thereof as are owned or as may be acquired by the state or for the use of the state pursuant to said section 26-16.
(1955, S.A. 290; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 289; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)
History: 1971 act replaced state board of fisheries and game with commissioner of environmental protection; 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.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game › Section 26-104. - Bantam Lake sanctuary.

No person shall hunt, take, kill or attempt to kill any duck, geese, brant, swan or other waterfowl or shore birds or waders protected by law, resting on or flying over the waters of Bantam Lake or that part of Bantam River located between said lake and a distance of five hundred feet below the second highway bridge located adjacent to the jambs, so called, or shall kill or attempt to kill any such birds within a distance of two hundred feet from the water level of said lake. The commissioner or any agent of the department may, within the discretion of the commissioner, take and kill wild animals or birds in or above said waters which said commissioner determines to be destructive of any wildlife protected by the provisions of this chapter. The commissioner may, with the approval of the Governor, build or erect a structure or dam with a fish screen thereon on Bantam River, but such structure or dam shall not contain a gate. Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be fined not more than two hundred fifty dollars.
(1949 Rev., S. 5008, 5009; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 290; P.A. 12-80, S. 30.)
History: 1971 act replaced references to board of fisheries and game and its agents with references to environmental protection commissioner and agents of environmental protection department; P.A. 12-80 replaced penalty of a fine of not more than $100 or imprisonment of not more than 30 days or both with a fine of not more than $250.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game › Section 26-105. - Lake Wononscopomuc sanctuary. Limited hunting.

No person shall hunt, take, kill or attempt to kill any duck, goose, brant, swan or other waterfowl or shore bird or wader protected by law, resting on or flying over the waters of Lake Wononscopomuc, or kill or attempt to kill any such bird within a distance of five hundred feet from the water level of said lake, except that when in the opinion of the first selectman and the conservation commission, waterfowl have reached numbers that are considered a nuisance or threaten to affect adversely the quality of the water of said lake, the chief executive officer of the town of Salisbury, acting as the issuing agent of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, may issue permits to hunt such waterfowl. Any person violating this section shall be fined not more than two hundred fifty dollars. The commissioner or any agent of the department may, within the discretion of said commissioner, take and kill wild animals or birds in or above said waters which the commissioner determines to be destructive of any wildlife protected by the provisions of this chapter.
(1953, S. 2553d; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 291; P.A. 75-325; P.A. 11-80, S. 1; P.A. 12-80, S. 31.)
History: 1971 act replaced references to board of fisheries and game and its agents with references to environmental protection commissioner and agents of environmental protection department; P.A. 75-325 increased distance which hunters of waterfowl must be from water level of lake from 200 to 500 feet and added exception for situations where waterfowl are so numerous as to threaten lake's water quality; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Environmental Protection” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Department of Energy and Environmental Protection”, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 12-80 replaced penalty of a fine of not more than $100 or imprisonment of not more than 30 days or both with a fine of not more than $250.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game › Section 26-106. - Milford refuge.

That portion of Milford Harbor extending from Memorial Bridge to the Milford breakwater and that portion of Gulf Pond extending from land of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company to said breakwater and that portion of the upland known as harbor side of Wilcox Park located on the east side of said Milford Harbor, comprising five acres more or less, is established as a state refuge for wildlife. The territory within the limits above described shall be subject to all provisions of the general statutes relating to state refuges for wildlife and to the regulations of the commissioner relating to such refuges.
(1931, S.A. 54; 1947, S.A. 136; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 292.)
History: 1971 act replaced reference to board of fisheries and game with reference to environmental protection commissioner.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game › Section 26-107. - Hunting and trapping on wildlife refuge or closed area.

No person shall, at any time, enter upon any state wildlife refuge or closed area to take, hunt, trap, snare, net, pursue, kill or destroy, or attempt to take, hunt, kill or destroy, any wildlife or disturb, destroy or remove the nest or egg of any bird or permit his dog to enter such wildlife refuge or closed area, and no person shall take, hunt, shoot, kill, pursue or trap any wildlife in any lane, road or highway adjacent to any land owned, leased or controlled by the state as a wildlife refuge or closed area; provided the commissioner or any person designated by him may take, hunt, kill or trap any fox, skunk, raccoon, wildcat, muskrat, mink, weasel, hawk, owl or other predacious bird or animal in any state wildlife refuge or closed area. The detection of any person with any firearm, bow and arrow, trap, snare, net or dog upon any state wildlife refuge or closed area shall be prima facie evidence of a violation of the provisions of this section. Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars.
(1949 Rev., S. 4924; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 293.)
History: 1971 act replaced reference to director of board of fisheries and game with reference to environmental protection commissioner.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game › Section 26-107f. - Program for the conservation of nonharvested wildlife.

(a) The General Assembly declares it to be the policy of the state to manage harvested and nonharvested wildlife to insure their continued participation in the ecosystem and to accord special protection to any endangered species or subspecies of wildlife indigenous to the state in order to maintain and enhance their numbers.
(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.
(P.A. 86-370, S. 1, 6; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)
History: Pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Commissioner of Environmental Protection” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection” in Subsec. (b), effective July 1, 2011.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game › Section 26-107g. - Citizen's Advisory Board for Nonharvested Wildlife. Membership. Duties.

Section 26-107g is repealed.
(P.A. 86-370, S. 2, 6; P.A. 95-38, S. 8.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game › Section 26-107h. - Annual report.

On or before February first, annually, the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall submit to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to the environment a report on the progress of the program established under section 26-107f, the purposes for which any funds allocated to said program were expended and the future of the program.
(P.A. 86-370, S. 3, 6; P.A. 95-38, S. 3; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 95-38 deleted requirement that report respond to recommendations by board established under former Sec. 26-107g; 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.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game › Section 26-107i. - Sale of wildlife stamps, prints, publications and other items. Allocation of revenue.

The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may establish a program for the sale of wildlife stamps, prints, posters, calendars, publications or other items. Any revenue received from the sale of such goods or materials shall be deposited in the General Fund and allocated to the program established under section 26-107f.
(P.A. 86-370, S. 4, 6; P.A. 89-351, S. 6, 11; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 89-351 made establishment of program permissive rather than mandatory and expanded scope of program to include posters, calendars, publications or other items; 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.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game › Section 26-108. - Inland waters and marine district defined.

The commissioner may, after public notice and hearing, determine the location of a line across any stream flowing into Long Island Sound, Fishers Island Sound or Little Narragansett Bay, or any tributary thereof, above which line such water shall be known as “inland water” and below which line such water shall be known as the “marine district”. Such notice shall be published at least twice in a newspaper having a circulation in the county within which any such stream enters either of said sounds or said bay.
(1949 Rev., S. 4926; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 294.)
History: 1971 act replaced reference to board of fisheries and game with reference to environmental protection commissioner.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game › Section 26-109. - Dividing lines between inland and marine waters in Groton, Stonington, the Niantic River and the Housatonic River.

(a) The dividing line between inland water and the marine district in the towns of Groton and Stonington shall be a line five hundred feet north of U.S. Route 1 extending from the west bank of the Thames River to the Rhode Island line, northerly above which dividing line shall be known as “inland water” and southerly below which line shall be known as “the marine district”. This section applies to tidal waters only and does not pertain to freshwater ponds or streams in the marine district, which ponds and streams shall be considered as inland waters.
(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.
(1957, P.A. 474; 527; 1959, P.A. 36, S. 1; P.A. 76-48.)
History: 1959 act specified in Subsec. (a) that provisions of section apply to tidal waters only, not to fresh water ponds and streams in marine district; P.A. 76-48 added Subsec. (c) re demarcation line between inland and marine waters of the Housatonic River.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game › Section 26-110. - Demarcation lines.

The commissioner may establish a line at the outlet and inlet of any artificial or natural lake or pond, which line shall divide such lake or pond from any stream or river flowing into or out of the same. On one side of such line the provisions of this chapter relating to fishing in lakes and ponds shall apply and on the other side of such line the provisions of this chapter relating to fishing in rivers or streams shall apply, as the case may be. Such line shall be fixed by posts suitably marked as the commissioner may determine and set upon opposite banks of any such lake, pond, river or stream.
(1949 Rev., S. 4930; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 295.)
History: 1971 act replaced references to board of fisheries and game with references to environmental protection commissioner.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game › Section 26-111. - Regulation of fishing.

In the interest of developing a sound program of sport fisheries management for all fish, including warm water, cold water and anadromous species, and all bait species, and to encourage landowner participation, and to develop public fishing in the waters of the state, the commissioner may regulate fishing and the taking of all bait species, as hereinafter provided, in any lake, pond, stream or portions thereof, and in all other waters in the inland district, as defined by the boundary lines established by the commissioner as provided for under the provisions of section 26-108.
(1955, S. 2517d; 1957, P.A. 319; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 296.)
History: 1971 act replaced references to board of fisheries and game with references to environmental protection commissioner.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game › Section 26-113. - Hearings.

Notice of such hearing shall be advertised in one or more newspapers having a general circulation in each of the counties of the state or in the locality where such waters are situated. Such notice shall specify the time, not less than fourteen days thereafter, the agenda and the place designated by the commissioner at which such hearing shall be held, and at which persons having an interest therein will have an opportunity to be heard. The commissioner or his designated representative shall conduct such hearing and cause a record thereof to be made. After such notice and hearing the commissioner shall issue his regulations based upon standards of sound fisheries management including the following: (a) Scientific and factual findings of a biological nature; (b) the availability of the species involved; (c) unusual weather conditions and special hazards; (d) the available supply of food and natural cover; (e) the general condition of the waters; (f) the control of the species; (g) the number of permits issued; (h) the area available; (i) the rights and privileges of sportsmen, landowners and the general public; (j) the problem of providing and perpetuating a sound program of fisheries management and a sound recreational program consistent with the availability of the species.
(1955, S. 2519d; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 298.)
History: 1971 act replaced references to board of fisheries and game with references to environmental protection commissioner.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.)
2023 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.
2023 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.)
2023 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.
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.)
2023 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.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game › Section 26-127. - Conservation of bait species. Daily limit.

(a) 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.
(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.
(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; P.A. 22-51, S. 1.)
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”; P.A. 22-51 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and added Subsec. (b) re daily limit for certain bait species and Subsec. (c) re penalty for violation of Subsec. (b).