2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 11 - Fish and Wildlife › Title 19 - Propagation; Shooting Preserves; Farm Fish Ponds; Fishing Preserves › 11-1911 - Farm Fish Ponds.

§ 11-1911. Farm fish ponds.
1.  "Farm fish pond" means a body of water, impounded by a dam, of not
  more than ten acres of water surface when full, lying wholly within  the
  boundaries  of  privately owned or leased lands. It does not include any
  pond used in connection with any private camp, boarding house, hotel  or
  other establishment catering to the public.
2. The department may issue to the owner or lessee of a farm fish pond
  a license, effective for a period of five years, entitling the holder to
  manage  such  fish pond for the production of fish. The department shall
  fix the  terms  of  each  such  license  and  may  include  therein  (a)
  permission  to  control  undesirable fish, aquatic vegetation and insect
  life, interfering with  the  production  of  fish  and  (b)  permission,
  notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter to the contrary, to
  release,  stock  and propagate fish in the licensed pond. The department
  may specify in the license methods of control to be used and the  manner
  of taking and type, size and mesh of gear to be used in taking fish. The
  department may, for cause, revoke or suspend any license issued pursuant
  to this section.
3.  No  person shall release any species of fish into a farm fish pond
  unless permission to do so is first obtained from the department.
4. A licensee, any member of his  immediate  family,  and  any  person
  actually  employed  by  him  in  the  cultivation  of  his  farm  or the
  management of the licensed pond may without license issued under title 7
  of the Fish and Wildlife Law, take fish of any size, in any  number,  at
  any time, in any manner permitted by the department.
5.  The holder of any type of fishing license, or a person entitled to
  exercise the privileges of such a license, may, with the  permission  of
  the  licensee,  take fish by angling from the licensed pond provided the
  holder complies with the provisions of title 13 of the Fish and Wildlife
  Law, with respect to open seasons, minimum size  limits  and  daily  and
  seasonal possession limits.
6. a. Fish protected by law, except trout, black bass, muskellunge and
  landlocked  salmon, legally taken from a licensed farm fish pond, may be
  bought and sold  during  their  respective  open  seasons,  and  may  be
  possessed  and  transported  at any time. Trout, black bass, muskellunge
  and landlocked salmon, legally taken from a licensed farm fish pond  may
  be  possessed  and  transported during their respective open seasons and
  until March 1 immediately following, but unless such fish were taken  by
  a person described in subdivision 4 or are frozen or otherwise processed
  and packaged for storage and are being transported to a place of storage
  or  consumption,  no person shall transport in any one day a quantity of
  such fish exceeding the quantity which may be legally  taken  from  that
  farm fish pond by a person described in subdivision 5.
b. Fish protected by law shall not be removed from the premises of the
  licensee  unless such fish or the package containing them bears the name
  and address of the licensee and his license  number  and  the  name  and
  address of the person in whose possession they are.
c.  Fish not protected by law, legally taken from a licensed farm fish
  pond, may be possessed, transported, bought and sold at any time, except
  that taking and sale of bait fish shall be permitted only under  license
  pursuant to section 11-1315.