Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › 157b - Reports to the Commissioner › Section 26-157b-1 - Reports

Current through July 10, 2024
Each holder of any commercial fishing license, landing license,
				pound net registration, or charter-party boat registration, each person
				licensed to take lobsters or fish for personal use only, and each person
				licensed to purchase marine species for resale shall, as provided in this
				section, report to the commissioner. These reports may include but are not
				limited to the number, weight and sex of finfish, squid, sea scallops, lobsters
				or crabs in the catch and landings by species and market size and grade; gear
				used and effort expended; area fished; port landed; disposition of catch; type
				and value of nets, boats, and other equipment used; number of persons employed;
				number, weight, market size, grade and price of marine species purchased and
				distributed, including conch, and the number of anglers fishing on board
				charter-party boats. These reports shall be made on forms provided by the
				commissioner or by other methods approved by the Commissioner. Said reports
				shall be completed in their entirety and submitted to the Marine Fisheries
				Division office of the department (P. O. Box 719, Old Lyme, CT 06371).
(a) Each licensed commercial shad fisherman
			 shall submit a report of daily fishing activities no later than June 30 of the
			 year covered by the report.
(b)
			 Each person licensed to take blue crabs for commercial purposes shall submit a
			 report of daily fishing activities no later than the tenth of the month
			 following the month covered by the report.
(c) Each person or firm issued a registration
			 for a pound net or similar device shall submit a report of daily fishing
			 activities no later than the tenth of the month following the month covered by
			 the report.
(d) Each person
			 licensed to set, tend or assist in setting or tending gill nets, seines, trap
			 nets, fish pots, fykes, scaps, scoops, weirs, eel pots or similar devices to
			 take finfish, or licensed to take finfish for commercial purposes by hook and
			 line or licensed to take horseshoe crabs by hand, shall complete a report of
			 all fishing activities, daily or at the end of the fishing trip. Said reports
			 shall be submitted no later than the tenth of the month following the month
			 covered by the report. Such reports shall be available on board any vessel at
			 any time for inspection by authorized agents of the commissioner.
(e) Each person licensed to set, tend, or
			 assist in setting or tending seines, traps, scaps, scoops, weirs or similar
			 devices to take bait species for commercial purposes shall submit a report of
			 daily fishing activities no later than the tenth of the month following the
			 month covered by the report.
(f)
			 Each person licensed to take lobsters or fish for personal use only, by means
			 of not more than ten lobster pots, by skin diving, scuba diving or by hand, and
			 each person licensed to take menhaden for personal use, shall submit a report
			 of daily fishing activities no later than January thirty-first of the year
			 following the year covered by the report.
(g) Each person (resident or nonresident)
			 licensed to take lobsters, squid, sea scallops, crabs (other than blue crabs)
			 or finfish for personal use or for sale by means of more than ten lobster pots
			 or similar devices, or by the use of otter trawls, balloon trawls, beam trawls
			 or similar devices, and each person licensed to land lobsters, sea scallops,
			 finfish, crabs, including blue crabs, or squid shall complete a report of all
			 fishing activities, daily or at the end of the fishing trip. Said reports shall
			 be submitted no later than the tenth of the month following the month covered
			 by the report. Such reports shall be available on board any vessel at any time
			 for inspection by authorized agents of the commissioner.
(h) Each person or firm licensed to buy
			 lobsters, finfish, squid, crabs, or sea scallops for resale from commercial
			 fishermen licensed by the commissioner shall complete a report of individual
			 purchase transactions of such species, including conch, and this report shall
			 be submitted no later than the tenth of the month following the month covered
			 by the report.
(i) Each person or
			 firm issued a charter boat or party boat registration shall submit a report of
			 daily fishing activities no later than the tenth of the month following the
			 month covered by the report.
(j) In
			 addition to the provisions of subsections (a) to (i), inclusive, of this
			 section for all species managed by quota, all holders of licenses or
			 registrations issued under section
			 26-142a
			 of the Connecticut General Statutes concerning the purchase for resale of
			 finfish, lobsters, crabs, sea scallops or squid, or the taking of said
			 resources, shall report weekly total landings in pounds and Connecticut port
			 where landed. Weekly reports shall be submitted for the period commencing on
			 Sunday and concluding on the following Saturday, and shall be submitted by a
			 method approved by the commissioner no later than 4:30pm on the following
			 Tuesday or 24 hours after the end of any fishing trip commencing prior to a
			 Saturday and concluding after the following Monday.