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Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › 112 - Sport Fishing in the Inland District › Section 26-112-39 - Conduct of fishermen

Current through July 10, 2024
The following regulations relating to fishing and the behavior
				and conduct of fishermen apply throughout the inland district.
(a) Entrance and exit from streams, lakes and
			 ponds is restricted to rights-of-way designated by posters or when consent has
			 been obtained from the landowner or his agent.
(b)
(1) All
			 fishermen shall keep within a reasonable distance of the banks of streams,
			 lakes and ponds and shall not trespass on lawns or posted property.
(2) On stream open to fishing under leases,
			 permanent fishing easements or formal agreements, all fishermen shall keep
			 within ten feet of the stream bank or at such distance as specified under said
			 leases, permanent fishing easements or formal agreements, as indicated by signs
			 posted by the Department of Energy and Environmental
			 Protection.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › 112 - Sport Fishing in the Inland District › Section 26-112-42 - Fishing tournaments/derbys

Current through July 10, 2024
No person or club shall conduct, on waters open to public
				fishing, a fishing tournament or derby which is open to persons sixteen years
				of age or older without having first obtained a Fishing Tournament/Derby Permit
				as herein provided.
(a) Each person or
			 club wishing to conduct a fishing tournament or derby on waters open to the
			 public shall make application for such tournament or derby to the Commissioner
			 on forms provided by him. Information required on such application may include,
			 but need not be limited to: the full name and address of the applicant; name of
			 the tournament or derby; sponsor; location; date(s); starting time(s); check-in
			 time(s); check-in location(s); anticipated number of participants; daily bag
			 limits; size limit; entry fee; and total value of awards.
(b) Permits for fishing tournaments or
			 derbies on waters open to public fishing shall be issued at the discretion of
			 the Commissioner.
(c) Each
			 permittee shall, within seven days after conducting a tournament or derby,
			 report to the Commissioner, on forms provided by him, information on the
			 results of the tournament or derby. Such information shall include, but need
			 not be limited to: total number of participants; total hours fished; total
			 number of each species caught; total weight of each species caught; number of
			 fish released after weigh-in; and number of fish retained after
			 weigh-in.
(d) Representatives of
			 the Commissioner may collect biological and statistical information on any or
			 all fish caught by participants at any permitted tournament or derby.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › 112 - Sport Fishing in the Inland District › Section 26-112-44 - Closed seasons

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Streams.
			 Fishing is allowed throughout the year in streams except as provided in
			 sections 26-112-46 and 26-112-48 of the Regulations of Connecticut State
			 Agencies.
(b) Lakes and Ponds.
			 Fishing is allowed throughout the year at lakes and ponds.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › 112 - Sport Fishing in the Inland District › Section 26-112-45 - Species limitations

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Alewives (Alosa
			 pseudoharengus) and blueback herring (Alosa aestivalis).
(1) Alewives and blueback herring may be
			 taken only by angling or scoop net, except that in tidal waters and
			 tributaries, as provided in section 26-112-46 of the Regulations of Connecticut
			 State Agencies, alewives and blueback herring may also be taken by snagging or
			 snatching.
(2) The taking of
			 alewives and blueback herring by scoop net from June sixteenth through March
			 thirty-first, both dates inclusive, is prohibited.
(3) In rivers and streams, the taking of
			 alewives and blueback herring by angling and snagging or snatching from June
			 sixteenth through 6:00 a.m. on the second Saturday in April is
			 prohibited.
(4) The taking of
			 alewives and blueback herring from the section of Brides Brook, East Lyme,
			 extending from the dam at Brides Pond downstream to Brides Brook Road is
			 prohibited.
(5) Alewives and
			 blueback herring shall not be taken from Saturday 12:00 midnight to Tuesday
			 12:00 midnight except in lakes and ponds, the main body of the Connecticut
			 River, the main body of the Housatonic River, and the main body of the Thames
			 River including the Shetucket River to the base of the Greenville
			 Dam.
(6) The daily creel limit for
			 alewives and blueback herring shall be twenty-five in the
			 aggregate.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › 112 - Sport Fishing in the Inland District › Section 26-112-47 - State-controlled fishing areas

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Repealed June
			 11, 2014.
(b)
Quinebaug
			 Valley Trout Hatchery Public Fishing Ponds.
The public fishing ponds at
			 the Quinebaug Valley Hatchery - Plainfield may be open to public fishing and
			 daily permits or permits for specific hourly periods may be required. A permit
			 fee of up to one dollar may be charged. Anglers shall be limited to one permit
			 per day. Persons under sixteen years of age shall be accompanied by a licensed
			 angler over twenty-one years of age. These ponds shall be managed so as to
			 obtain data concerning catch, catch per unit of effort and method of angling.
			 Legal methods of angling, daily limit, open season, legal angling hours,
			 minimum lengths, areas open to angling, the number of anglers using these ponds
			 and any other special condition governing the use of these ponds shall be
			 determined by the Department of Environmental Protection and posted at each
			 pond or stated on the permits issued by the department.
Publisher's note:
				  Public
				  Act 14-187 repealed subsection (a), effective June
				  11, 2014. (June 11, 2014)
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › 112 - Sport Fishing in the Inland District › Section 26-112-48 - Miscellaneous restrictions

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) In the
			 following waters the indicated miscellaneous restrictions shall apply:
(1) Bog Meadow Pond, Norwich. The use of
			 vessels is prohibited.
(2) Hewitt
			 Pond (Lower Hewitt Pond), North Stonington. The operation of vessels with
			 motors, except for electric motors, is prohibited.
(3) Housatonic River, Kent. No person shall
			 fish in those portions of the Housatonic River within one hundred feet of signs
			 indicating such prohibition posted by the Department of Energy and
			 Environmental Protection at or near the mouths of Kent Falls Brook and
			 Macedonia Brook during the period June fifteenth through September fifteenth,
			 inclusive.
(4) Isinglass Reservoir
			 (Far Mill Reservoir), Shelton. Ice fishing is prohibited.
(5) Messerchmidt's Pond, Deep River,
			 Westbrook. The operation of vessels with motors, except for electric motors, is
			 prohibited.
(6) Quassapaug Lake,
			 Middlebury, Woodbury. Ice fishing is prohibited. The daily creel limit for
			 trout shall be one and the minimum length shall be eighteen inches. The daily
			 creel limit for black bass shall be one and the minimum length shall be
			 eighteen inches.
(7) Salmon River,
			 East Haddam. No person shall fish in those portions of the Salmon River in East
			 Haddam within one hundred feet of signs indicating such prohibition posted by
			 the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection at or near the spring
			 entering the Salmon River, approximately 220 feet south of the paved boat ramp
			 in Sunrise Resort State Park, during the period June fifteenth through
			 September fifteenth, inclusive.
(8)
			 Saugatuck Reservoir, Easton, Redding, Weston. Ice fishing is
			 prohibited.
(9) Shelton Reservoir
			 #2, Shelton. Ice fishing is prohibited.
(10) West Pequonnock Reservoir, Monroe. Ice
			 fishing is prohibited.
(11) Factory
			 Pond, Salisbury. Ice fishing is prohibited.
(12) Lake Chamberlain, Bethany. Ice fishing
			 is prohibited.
(13) Lake
			 Saltonstall, Branford, East Haven. Ice fishing is prohibited.
(14) Maltby Lakes (#1, #2, #3), Orange West
			 Haven. Ice fishing is prohibited.
(15) Lake McDonough (Compensating Reservoir),
			 New Hartford, Barkhamsted. Ice fishing is prohibited.
(16) Shenipsit Lake, Ellington, Tolland,
			 Vernon. Ice fishing is prohibited.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › 114 - Prohibited Acts › Section 26-114-1 - Prohibited acts

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) No person shall buy, sell or exchange,
			 offer for sale or exchange or possess with intent to sell or exchange, any
			 species of salmon including Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), coho (Oncorhynchus
			 kisutch), sockeye or kokanee (Oncorhynchus nerka) or chinook (Oncorhynchus
			 tshawtscha) taken in Connecticut waters.
(b) No person shall construct, for the
			 purpose of taking fish, any rack, screen, weir, wing dam or other obstruction
			 in any stream or in the outlet or inlet of any pond or stream, unless so
			 authorized by a commercial hatchery license issued pursuant to section
			 26-149
			 of the general statutes.
(c) No
			 person shall take, or attempt to take, fish by means of any rack, screen, weir,
			 wing dam or other obstruction in any stream or in the outlet or inlet of any
			 pond or stream, unless so authorized by a commercial hatchery license issued
			 pursuant to section
			 26-149
			 of the general statutes.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › 131 - Private Waters › Section 26-131-1 - Private waters

Current through July 10, 2024
Owners of private waters registered with the Department of
				Environmental Protection as provided by the General Statutes, and their guests,
				may remove any species of fish from such waters by any method, except by the
				use of chemicals or explosives. Fish taken from such waters may be removed from
				the premises, possessed and transported without regard to open or closed
				seasons, legal lengths or daily creel limits, provided such fish are dead and
				shall be packaged and the package containing such fish, shall have attached
				thereto a tag or label bearing legible writing showing the registration number
				issued for such water by the Department of Environmental Protection, the name
				and address of the owner of such water, the number and species of fish
				contained therein, the date such fish were removed from such water and the name
				and address of the person removing such fish from such water. Such fish shall
				not be sold, offered for sale or exchanged. The owner of such water shall not
				allow fish to be removed from the premises alive. No fee may be charged for the
				privilege of fishing in such waters.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › 132 - Privately Stocked Waters › Section 26-132-1 - Privately stocked waters

Current through July 10, 2024
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, may request special open and closed seasons, daily
				creel and season limits, and legal lengths of species taken from such waters,
				under the provisions of Section
				26-132
				of the General Statutes, on forms provided by the Department of Environmental
				Protection. Information required may include, but need not be limited to: the
				full name and address of the association; name, location and description of
				such waters; full name and address of the owner(s) of such waters and, if the
				applicant does not own the waters, proof of the control of fishing rights. Any
				such request approved by the Commissioner under the provisions of this section
				shall be in letter form to the applicant and shall expire on December 31st of
				the year of approval.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › 141a - Minimum Stream Flow Standards › Section 26-141a-2 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
As used in these regulations,
(a) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of
			 Environmental Protection.
(b)
			 "Calendar month water surface elevations" is a listing of the pond elevations
			 at the first of each calendar month which have occurred or would result from
			 historical flows, the available storage, and the current demand.
(c) "Discharge device" means any gate, valve,
			 pipe, spillway, tainter gate, flash-board, tailrace or similar means of
			 conducting water from above an impoundment or diversion to the watercourse
			 below.
(d) "Diversion" means a
			 structure which removes water from a watercourse, which does not return
			 substantially all of the water so removed directly and promptly to such
			 watercourse. Diversions shall include, but are not limited to, structures used
			 for water supply, irrigation, industrial use, power production, and recreation.
			 Diversions shall not include combined impoundment diversion structures which
			 shall be classified instead as impoundments.
(e) "Drainage area" means that portion of the
			 watershed upstream from the subject structure which catches and conveys all
			 runoff to the structure.
(f)
			 "Impoundment" means a dam, dike, reservoir, or other structure, constructed to
			 seize and hold water by effectively blocking the flow of a watercourse.
			 Impoundments shall include, but are not limited to, structures used for water
			 supply, industrial use, power production and recreation. Impoundments shall not
			 include small retaining walls constructed for the sole purpose of keeping
			 diversion pipes or structures submerged or dry flood control dams, but shall
			 include all other combined impoundment-diversion structures.
(g) "Operator" means any person who, or the
			 responsible administrative or executive officer of any organization which owns,
			 operates, or proposes to construct any impoundment or diversion on a stocked
			 river or stream system within the State.
(h) "Release" means any discharge by means of
			 a valve, gate, penstock, pipe, spillway, flashboard, turbine, or from leakage,
			 seepage, condensation, precipitation on the structure, or from any source which
			 becomes part of the flow downstream of the structure.
(i) "Safe yield" means the maximum continuous
			 supply which can be anticipated from the watershed with the available storage
			 during a period of years in which occurs a year as dry as one in
			 twenty.
(j) "Stocked watercourse"
			 means any watercourse and its tributaries into which the Commissioner or his
			 agent shall have ordered or directed to be placed therein any species of trout,
			 charr, salmon or their hybrid, or any other commercial or game fish, regardless
			 of age or size.
(k) "Water supply
			 emergency" means a combination of climatological water demand, water quality,
			 or structural problems which could cause a grave situation which these
			 regulations could worsen or which their suspension could help
			 alleviate.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › 141a - Minimum Stream Flow Standards › Section 26-141a-3 - Jurisdiction

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) These regulations shall apply to any dam
			 or other structure which impounds, or diverts waters, located on those
			 watercourses which are listed in an annual publication by the Commissioner of
			 stocked watercourses and their tributaries, or parts thereof, the flow of which
			 he finds reasonably necessary to the protection and maintenance of such
			 stocking, which are in operation on the effective date of these regulations or
			 which subsequently commence operation.
(b) Except that the following impoundments
			 and diversions shall be exempt from these regulations:
(1) those at locations with drainage areas of
			 less than three (3) square miles in area;
(2) government operated flood control
			 dams;
(3) those which discharge
			 directly or through a stream less than one mile in length into a reservoir,
			 lake, pond, or tidal waters unless the Commissioner has found that such stream
			 has a unique value to the natural or stocked wildlife;
(4) those which return substantially all the
			 daily inflow to the same watercourse in the immediate vicinity or in the case
			 of existing impoundments and diversions, in the locations where releases
			 normally occur;
(5) those which
			 have no capability of controlling the discharge; and
(6) those exempted by action of the
			 Commissioner under Section
			 26-141a-4.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › 141a - Minimum Stream Flow Standards › Section 26-141a-4 - Variances

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) The operator of any diversion or
			 impoundment or any person who proposes to construct a diversion or impoundment
			 may petition the Commissioner at any time for an exemption or variance for any
			 such structure from the minimum flow and freshet release standards of these
			 regulations. The petition shall contain information sufficient to allow the
			 Commissioner to give adequate consideration to the effect, in terms of the
			 factors enumerated below, of the operation of the structure under such an
			 exemption or variance on the stocked river or stream system in question. The
			 Commissioner may require additional information prior to acting on such a
			 petition. Notice of the granting of an exemption or a variance shall be
			 published in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality or
			 municipalities wherein the affected structure or river or stream system is
			 located.
In determining whether to grant an exemption or variance under
				this section, upon receipt of a petition from the operator of an impoundment or
				diversion, the Commissioner shall include, but is not limited to, consideration
				of whether operation of the structure will:
(1) Prevent the maintenance of viable pools,
			 channels, or other water basins, or allow their undue depletion by normal
			 evaporation and aquifer absorption;
(2) Reduce oxygen content below minimal
			 levels, cause stagnation, or inhibit reproductive cycles (where that potential
			 exists);
(3) Prevent the
			 preservation, protection and safe maintenance of the river and stream stocking
			 program, the natural aquatic life contained in such waters (including
			 anadromous fish), and the natural or stocked wildlife dependent upon the flow
			 of such water, and the availability of such water for public recreational uses;
			 or
(4) Meet the needs and
			 requirements for public health, flood control, industry, public utilities,
			 water supply, water quality, electric power production, public safety,
			 agriculture, and other lawful uses of such waters.
Any such exemption or variance may be revoked, after a hearing
				at which the operator shall have an opportunity to present evidence in support
				of retention of the exemption or variance, if the Commissioner finds, upon
				consideration of the factors enumerated above in this section, that there
				exists a change in the conditions surrounding, or manner of operation of, the
				diversion or impoundment, sufficient to materially and adversely alter the
				circumstances under which such exemption or variance was granted.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › 141a - Minimum Stream Flow Standards › Section 26-141a-5 - Filing requirements

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Operators of
			 existing impoundments or diversions subject to these regulations shall file the
			 following information within twelve (12) months after the effective date of
			 these regulations. Operators of new impoundments or diversions subject to these
			 regulations shall file such information three (3) months before the start of
			 operation of such facilities.
(1) Name of
			 structure; name, address and telephone number of owner and operator; location
			 of structure on U.S. Geological Survey topographic map; purpose and use of
			 structure; location of discharge.
(2) Drainage area above structure; reservoir
			 capacity at various elevations; stream flow records; the safe yield of the
			 facility; demand requirements.
(3)
			 Frequency of recurrence of water surface elevations on the first day of each
			 calendar month. Such water surface elevations and the frequency of occurrence
			 may be corrected to what they would have been under conditions of current
			 demand and current diversion requirements.
(4) Type, capacity and control capability of
			 all discharge devices.
When two or more structures are operated as a single facility
				and the safe yield is interdependent, the method of operation shall be
				described, including the anticipated method of compliance with the requirements
				of Section
				26-141a-6.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › 141a - Minimum Stream Flow Standards › Section 26-141a-6 - Flow requirements

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Subsequent to
			 the approval by the Commissioner of the information filed under Section
			 26-141a-5,
			 the operator of any impoundment or diversion subject to these regulations shall
			 cause a release on each day of the current month a daily flow not less than
			 that computed by multiplying the drainage area by the appropriate flow obtained
			 from the following table:
RequiredDailyAverageReleasesinCubicFeetperSecondperSquareMileofDrainageAreaPercentofSafeYieldUtilized
Existing Impoundments
0
75
85
95
100
100-
-100
.20
.15
.10
.05
.01
50-
-50
.15
.10
.05
.01
.01
20-
-20
.10
.05
.01
.01
.01
10-
-10
.05
.01
.01
.01
.01
5-
-5
.01
.01
.01
.01
.01
0-
-0
New Impoundments
100-
-100
.25
.20
.15
.10
.05
50-
-50
.20
.15
.10
.05
.02
10-
-10
.15
.10
.05
.02
.02
5-
-5
.10
.05
.02
.02
.02
0-
-0
For impoundments
- percent chance of occurrence of
				corrected calendar month water surface elevations being equal to, or lower
				than, the elevation on the first day of the current month.
For diversions
- percent chance of occurrence of
				previous calendar month flow being equal to, or lower than, the actual flow
				during the previous month.
(b) Except that flow rates equal to, or
			 exceeding, the mean inflow rate for March shall be allowed to pass during any
			 consecutive five (5) days from February 15 to March 15. If the required Daily
			 Average Release is below 0.20 cubic feet per second per square mile of drainage
			 area, the number of days of such release of March mean inflow shall be reduced
			 in accordance with the following table:
Required Daily Average Release
Required Number of Days of Release of March Mean
						  Inflow
0.15
4
0.10
3
0.05
2
0.01
1
(c)
			 The required daily releases shall be at a constant instantaneous rate
			 throughout the day unless a variance is granted under Section
			 26-141a-4.
(d) The releases required by this section
			 shall be determined in the watercourse immediately below the impoundment or
			 diversion, or in the case of existing impoundments or diversions, in the
			 locations where releases normally occur.
(e) All impoundments or diversions placed in
			 operation subsequent to the effective date of these regulations shall include
			 discharge devices with adequate controls to provide the required
			 releases.
(f) :Except for flows
			 required by (b), no release shall be required which is in excess of the natural
			 flow of water into the impoundment or diversion on that day.
(g) If the impoundment or diversion is
			 downstream of an impoundment or diversion which is in noncompliance with these
			 regulations, the required releases may be reduced to the extent of the upstream
			 noncompliance.
(h) Releases shall
			 not be made through discharge devices which the Commissioner has found will
			 discharge water of unsatisfactory quality for the preservation, protection or
			 safe maintenance of the natural or stocked wildlife.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › 141a - Minimum Stream Flow Standards › Section 26-141a-7 - Hearing

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Any person may request a hearing
			 consistent with the applicable sections of 22a-7-1 through 22a-8-11 of the
			 regulations of the Department of Environmental Protection when they file
			 petitions under Section
			 26-141a-4(a)
			 of these regulations. A person aggrieved by the denial of a petition or a
			 request for a Water Supply Emergency Declaration under Section
			 26-141a-4(b)
			 of these regulations may request a hearing consistent with 22a-7-1 through
			 22a-8-11 of the regulations of the Department of Environmental
			 Protection.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › 141a - Minimum Stream Flow Standards › Section 26-141a-8 - Conflict and severance

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Where there is
			 a conflict between the provisions of these regulations and those of any other
			 applicable ordinance or regulation, the provisions of the ordinance or
			 regulation which imposes the most stringent flow standards shall
			 govern.
(b) The invalidity of any
			 word, clause, sentence, section, part, or provision of these regulations shall
			 not affect the validity of any other part which can be given effect without
			 such invalid part or parts.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › 141b - Stream Flow Standards and Regulations › Section 26-141b-4 - Narrative standards

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) A river or
			 stream segment classified as "Class 1" pursuant to the Stream Flow Standards
			 and Regulations shall exhibit, at all times, the depth, volume, velocity and
			 variation of stream flow and water levels necessary to support and maintain
			 habitat conditions supportive of an aquatic, biological community
			 characteristic of that typically present in free-flowing river or stream
			 systems of similar size and geomorphic characteristics under the prevailing
			 climatic conditions.
(b) A river or
			 stream segment classified as "Class 2" pursuant to the Stream Flow Standards
			 and Regulations shall exhibit, at all times, the depth, volume, velocity and
			 variation of stream flow and water levels necessary to support and maintain
			 habitat conditions supportive of an aquatic, biological community minimally
			 altered from that typically present in free-flowing river or stream systems of
			 similar size and geomorphic characteristics under the prevailing climatic
			 conditions.
(c) A river or stream
			 segment classified as "Class 3" pursuant to the Stream Flow Standards and
			 Regulations shall exhibit, at all times, the depth, volume, velocity and
			 variation of stream flow and water levels necessary to support and maintain
			 habitat conditions supportive of an aquatic, biological community moderately
			 altered from that typically present in free-flowing river or stream systems of
			 similar size and geomorphic characteristics under the prevailing climatic
			 conditions.
(d) A river or stream
			 segment classified as "Class 4" pursuant to the Stream Flow Standards and
			 Regulations may exhibit substantially altered stream flow conditions caused by
			 human activity to provide for the needs and requirements of public health and
			 safety, flood control, industry, public utilities, water supply, agriculture
			 and other lawful uses; and shall, while giving consideration to societal needs,
			 economic costs, and environmental impacts, exhibit to the maximum extent
			 practicable the depth, volume, velocity and variation of stream flow and water
			 levels consistent with the narrative standard for Class 3 river and stream
			 segments. The societal needs, economic costs, and environmental impacts to be
			 considered shall include:
(1) Extent of prior
			 channel modification;
(2) Current
			 impact of development and impervious cover in the watershed;
(3) Overriding societal needs that cannot
			 otherwise be met;
(4) Economic
			 impact that would substantially impair or otherwise detrimentally affect the
			 economy of the community in which the segment is located or of the
			 state;
(5) Associated environmental
			 impacts to other river or stream segments;
(6) Existing biological community;
			 and
(7) The margin of safety of the
			 community water system utilizing the river or stream segment as an existing
			 public water supply source.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › 141b - Stream Flow Standards and Regulations › Section 26-141b-7 - Record keeping and reporting requirements

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Any
			 person owning or operating a dam subject to the Stream Flow Standards and
			 Regulations shall, not later than one year after the date of publication of
			 classification for a river or stream segment on which such owner's dam is
			 located, submit to the department on a form prescribed by the commissioner the
			 following information:
(1) The name of the
			 dam;
(2) The permit or registration
			 number assigned to the dam pursuant to section
			 22a-368
			 of the Connecticut General Statutes;
(3) The geographical location of the dam in
			 latitude and longitude (degrees, minutes, seconds);
(4) The affected river or stream segment and
			 its classification;
(5) The name,
			 address and telephone number of the owner or operator of the dam;
(6) A certification that the owner or
			 operator will continue to meet sections
			 26-141a-1 to
			 26-141a-8,
			 inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, if applicable;
			 and
(7) A statement that the owner
			 or operator has or will develop a plan for making those infrastructure changes
			 necessary to comply with the ten-year timeframe established in subsection (a)
			 of section
			 26-141b-6 of
			 the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, if such timeframe is
			 applicable.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › 141b - Stream Flow Standards and Regulations › Section 26-141b-8 - Conflict and severance

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Where there is
			 a conflict between the provisions of the Stream Flow Standards and Regulations
			 and those of any other applicable ordinance, regulation or permit, the
			 provisions of the ordinance, regulation or permit that imposes the most
			 stringent requirements shall govern.
(b) The invalidity of any word, clause,
			 sentence, section, part or provision of the Stream Flow Standards and
			 Regulations shall not affect the validity of any other part that can be given
			 effect without such invalid part or parts.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › 142a - Commercial Fishing in the Inland and Marine Districts › Section 26-142a-1 - Inland commercial species

Current through July 10, 2024
Subject to the provisions of section
				26-142a-3 a
				to section 26-142a-7 a, inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State
				Agencies, only the following species may be taken for commercial purposes in
				those areas of the inland district described in section
				26-142a-2
				of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies:
(a) Carp (Cyprinus carpio)
(b) Common sucker (Catostomus
			 commersonii)
(c) American eel
			 (Anguilla rostrata)
(d) Sea lamprey
			 (Petromyzon marinus)
(e) Atlantic
			 tomcod or "frostfish" (Microgadus tomcod)
(f) Hickory shad (Alosa mediocris)
(g) American shad (Alosa
			 sapidissima)
(h) Alewife (Alosa
			 pseudoharengus)
(i) Blueback (glut
			 or river) herring (Alosa aestivalis)
(j) White perch (Morone americana)
(k) Yellow perch (Perca flavescens)
(l) Catfish species (Ictalurus
			 spp.)
(m)
Bait
			 species
. Only the following species of minnows and other bait species,
			 except as provided in section
			 26-55-5
			 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, may be taken commercially for
			 sale as bait:
(1) golden shiner or "pond
			 shiner" (Notemigonus crysoleucas);
(2) common shiner (Luxilus
			 cornutus);
(3) fallfish (Semotilus
			 corporalis);
(4) creek chub
			 (Semotilus atromaculatus);
(5)
			 spottail shiner or "river bait" (Notropis hudsonius);
(6) bridle shiner (Notropis
			 bifrenatus);
(7) blacknose dace
			 (Rhinichthys atratulus);
(8)
			 longnose dace (Rhinichthys cataractae);
(9) pearl dace (Margariscus
			 margarita);
(10) bluntnose minnow
			 (Pimephales notatus);
(11) fathead
			 minnow (Pimephales promelas);
(12)
			 cutlips minnow (Exoglossum maxillingua);
(13) chub sucker (Erimyzon
			 oblongus);
(14) banded killifish
			 (Fundulus diaphanus);
(15)
			 mummichug (Fundulus heteroclitus);
(16) striped killifish (Fundulus
			 majalis);
(17) tidewater silverside
			 (Menidia beryllina);
(18) Atlantic
			 silverside (Menidia menidia);
(19)
			 bay anchovy (Anchoa mitchilli);
(20) sheepshead minnow (Cyprinodon
			 variegatus);
(21) mullet species
			 (Mugil spp.);
(22) Frogs (except
			 northern leopard frog, Rana pipiens);
(23) perch bugs;
(24) helgramites;
(25) mayfly nymphs;
(26) other aquatic insects;
(27) crayfish (except rusty crayfish,
			 Orconectes rusticus);
(28) shrimp
			 (families Crangonidae, Palaemonidae, and Penaeidae).
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › 142a - Commercial Fishing in the Inland and Marine Districts › Section 26-142a-2 - Locations. In the inland district commercial fishing is permitted only in the following areas

Current through July 10, 2024
(a)
Connecticut River system:
(1) The
			 main body of the river from the I-95 highway bridge at Old Saybrook-Old Lyme to
			 the Massachusetts-Connecticut state line.
(2) The coves and portions of tributaries
			 which are subject to tidal fluctuation except the Farmington River and its
			 coves and flood waters and the Salmon River and its coves and flood
			 waters.
(3) The temporary or
			 seasonal pools formed by the flood waters of the Connecticut River.
(4) That portion of the Hockanum River lying
			 within the boundaries of the township of East Hartford.
(5) Bait species as defined in section
			 26-142a-1(n)
			 may be taken for commercial purposes in the Hockanum River and its impoundments
			 or portions of impoundments within the township of East Hartford.
(6) That portion of the Blackhall River which
			 lies within the inland district and which is subject to tidal
			 fluctuation.
(7) That portion of
			 the Lieutenant River which lies within the inland district and which is subject
			 to tidal fluctuations.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › 142a - Commercial Fishing in the Inland and Marine Districts › Section 26-142a-3a - Area-gear restrictions

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) No commercial
			 fishing gear shall be used for taking any fish in that portion of North Cove,
			 as indicated by posters and known as Fall River, in the township of
			 Essex.
(b) Pound nets and trap nets
			 shall not be used to take any fish in the area lying between lines drawn south
			 in Long Island Sound to the New York state line from Fenwick Dock, Old
			 Saybrook, and from Mill Creek (Mile Creek), Old Lyme.
(c) No pound net shall be set less than five
			 thousand two hundred and eighty (5280) feet from the documented location of any
			 other pound net.
(d) No fixed
			 commercial fishing gear shall be set at any time within any navigable channel
			 as indicated by United States Coast Guard channel markers or within any fairway
			 as designated by an approved harbor management plan adopted under Chapter 444a
			 of the General Statutes. No fixed fishing gear shall be set in any mooring area
			 as designated by an approved harbor management plan adopted under Chapter 444a
			 of the General Statutes during the period May 1 through October 15. For the
			 purposes of this section, fairway is defined as a harbor channel which is not
			 marked by United States Coast Guard channel markers but is designated as a
			 navigation channel in an approved harbor management plan; mooring area is
			 defined as an area in which vessels are commonly moored with permanent mooring
			 tackle, and fixed commercial fishing gear means the following: gill nets
			 anchored or tied in a fixed position; trap nets; fyke nets; pound nets; and the
			 buoys of fish pots, eel pots, whelk pots, or lobster pots including those set
			 by holders of the personal use lobster license.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › 142a - Commercial Fishing in the Inland and Marine Districts › Section 26-142a-4 - Seasons

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) There shall be no closed season on carp,
			 suckers, eels and minnows taken for commercial purposes in the waters described
			 in section
			 26-142a-2
			 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies.
(b) The closed season for the taking of
			 yellow perch, white perch, and catfish species for commercial purposes shall be
			 April first to September thirtieth inclusive except that catfish species may be
			 taken as a species incidental to the shad fishery subject to the provisions of
			 section
			 26-142a-6(c)(2)(A)
			 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies.
(c) The closed season for the taking of
			 American shad for commercial purposes shall be June sixteenth to March
			 thirty-first inclusive and no shad shall be taken for commercial purposes from
			 Friday night at sundown to Sunday night at sundown.
(d) The closed season for the taking of
			 alewives and blueback (glut or river) herring for commercial purposes shall be
			 June sixteenth to March thirty-first inclusive, and no alewives or blueback
			 (glut or river) herring shall be taken for commercial purposes from Friday
			 night at sundown to Sunday night at sundown except by scoop nets or sport
			 fishing.
(e) The closed season for
			 the taking of tomcod for commercial purposes shall be April sixteenth to
			 November thirtieth inclusive.
(f)
			 The closed season for the taking of blue crabs for any purpose shall be
			 December first to April thirtieth inclusive.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › 142a - Commercial Fishing in the Inland and Marine Districts › Section 26-142a-5 - Closed season for fyke, trap and pound nets in Connecticut River

Current through July 10, 2024
From April first to June fifteenth, both inclusive, fyke, trap
				and pound nets shall not be used in the main body of the Connecticut River.
				Nothing herein shall be construed so as to prevent the use of minnow traps as
				described in section
				26-142a-6(f)
				in the Connecticut River during the period April first to June
				fifteenth.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › 142a - Commercial Fishing in the Inland and Marine Districts › Section 26-142a-6 - Commercial fishing gear specifications

Current through July 10, 2024
Commercial fishing gear shall conform to the following
				specifications:
(a) The bowl of
			 pounds, trap nets and fykes shall have a mesh of not less than two inches when
			 stretched.
(b) Seines shall have a
			 mesh of not less than two and one-half inches when stretched, except that:
(1) seines used for taking shad shall have a
			 mesh of not less than five inches when stretched;
(2) seines used for taking lamprey eels shall
			 have a mesh of not less than two inches when stretched; and
(3) seines used for taking tomcod also known
			 as "frostfish," shall have a mesh of not less than one and one-half inches when
			 stretched and fifty feet of the center or bunt of such seine shall be not less
			 than one and one-quarter inches when stretched.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › 142a - Commercial Fishing in the Inland and Marine Districts › Section 26-142a-7a - Species - area limitations

Current through July 10, 2024
(a)
American
			 shad
(1) In the inland district
			 American shad shall not be taken except as provided by section
			 26-112-45(b)
			 of the regulations of Connecticut State Agencies and American shad may be taken
			 with nets for commercial purposes only in the main body of the Connecticut
			 River from the I-95 highway bridge in Old Saybrook-Old Lyme to the William H.
			 Putnam Memorial Bridge on Route 3, Glastonbury-Wethersfield.
(2) In the marine district the following
			 restrictions shall apply to the taking of American shad:
(A) shad shall not be netted between lines
			 drawn south in Long Island Sound to the New York State line from Menunketesuck
			 Point, Westbrook and from Hatchett Point, Old Lyme except with seines, pounds
			 and gill nets.
(B) the taking of
			 shad by commercial fishing methods is prohibited in the Pawcatuck River
			 upstream from a line drawn southerly from the southern extremity of Pawcatuck
			 Point to the Connecticut-Rhode Island State line.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › 142a - Commercial Fishing in the Inland and Marine Districts › Section 26-142a-8a - Species restrictions

Current through July 10, 2024
(a)
Blue
			 Crabs.
No person shall take or attempt to take any blue crabs in any
			 waters of this state except by scoop or scap net, handline or manually operated
			 and personally attended devices described below:
(1) Manually closed, caging devices similar
			 to the Star Crab Trap manufactured by the Cuba Specialty Manufacturing Company,
			 Houghton, New York.
(2) Circular,
			 topless traps not exceeding twenty-six (26) inches in diameter.
(3) Semicircular cylindrical traps not
			 exceeding twelve (12) inches in diameter with hinged entrances or ends
			 controlled by drawstrings.
No person shall take, offer for sale or possess at any time any
				female blue crab bearing eggs visible thereon or from which the egg pouch or
				bunion has been removed. No person shall take, offer for sale or possess any
				hard shell blue crab measuring less than five inches across the shell
				(carapace) from tip to tip of spikes; but soft shell blue crabs not less than
				three and one-half inches across the shell from tip to tip of spikes may be
				taken, sold and possessed. No person on the waters of this state or on any
				parcel of land, structure, or portion of a roadway abutting tidal waters shall
				possess any uncooked blue crab meat without the shell (carapace) attached. No
				more than two claws per crab may be possessed.
Any blue crabs taken contrary to these regulations shall,
				without avoidable injury, be returned immediately to the water from which
				taken.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › 142a - Commercial Fishing in the Inland and Marine Districts › Section 26-142a-12 - Taking and sale of bait species

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) The species
			 listed in this subsection, to the exclusion of all other species, may be taken
			 commercially in the inland district under an inland commercial bait license, or
			 in the marine district under a marine commercial bait license. These species
			 may also be offered for sale as bait species under a bait dealers license.
(1) golden shiner or "pond shiner"
			 (Notemigonus crysoleucas);
(2)
			 common shiner (Luxilus cornutus);
(3) fallfish (Semotilus
			 corporalis);
(4) creek chub
			 (Semotilus atromaculatus);
(5)
			 spottail shiner or "river bait" (Notropis hudsonius);
(6) bridle shiner (Notropis
			 bifrenatus);
(7) blacknose dace
			 (Rhinichthys atratulus);
(8)
			 longnose dace (Rhinichthys cataractae);
(9) pearl dace (Margariscus
			 margarita);
(10) bluntnose minnow
			 (Pimephales notatus);
(11) fathead
			 minnow (Pimephales promelas);
(12)
			 cutlips minnow (Exoglossum maxillingua);
(13) chub sucker (Erimyzon
			 oblongus);
(14) banded killifish
			 (Fundulus diaphanus);
(15)
			 mummichug (Fundulus heteroclitus);
(16) striped killifish (Fundulus
			 majalis);
(17) tidewater silverside
			 (Menidia beryllina);
(18) Atlantic
			 silverside (Menidia menidia);
(19)
			 sand lance or "sand eels" (Ammodytes spp.);
(20) bay anchovy (Anchoa
			 mitchilli);
(21) sheepshead minnow
			 (Cyprinodon variegatus);
(22)
			 mullet species (Mugil spp.);
(23)
			 frogs (except northern leopard frog, Rana pipiens);
(24) perch bugs;
(25) helgramites;
(26) mayfly nymphs;
(27) other aquatic insects;
(28) crayfish (except rusty crayfish,
			 Orconectes rusticus);
(29) green
			 crabs (Carcinus maenas);
(30)
			 fiddler crabs (Uca spp.);
(31)
			 hermit crabs (Pagurus spp.);
(32)
			 Asian (Japanese) shore crab (Hemigrapsus sanguineus); and
(33) shrimp (families Crangonidae,
			 Palaemonidae, and Penaeidae).
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › 142a - Commercial Fishing in the Inland and Marine Districts › Section 26-142a-15 - When a license is not required

Current through July 10, 2024
In the marine district a commercial fishing license is not
				required to take, for personal use only, menhaden, hickory shad, alewives, glut
				herring, sea herring, eels, lampreys and bait species by the use of:
(1) cast nets;
(2) minnow traps not more than twenty inches
			 long and fifteen inches in diameter;
(3) scoop or scap nets not more than
			 thirty-six inches in diameter;
(4)
			 umbrella nets not more than four feet in length by four feet in
			 width;
(5) seines not more than
			 thirty feet in length; and
(6) not
			 more than two eel pots.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 26 - Fisheries and Game › 142a - Commercial Fishing in the Inland and Marine Districts › Section 26-142a-16 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
The following definitions shall apply to regulations adopted
				under authority of sections
				26-112,
				26-142a,
				26-157b,
				26-157c,
				and
				26-159a
				of the general statutes:
(1) "Bycatch"
			 is that portion of a commercial fishery catch that is taken incidental to the
			 directed fishing effort. Directed fishing is indicated by the primary species
			 or group of species sought, the commercial gear utilized, the area and time of
			 the year when the fishing occurs. Bycatch may include but not be limited to an
			 amount of a species allowed to be taken during fishing with small mesh or a
			 regulated gear type.
(2) For sport
			 fishing purposes, "culling" or "high-grading" means discarding or returning a
			 previously retained fish to the water in order to retain a more desirable fish.
			 Any fish placed on a stringer, in a container, cooler, live well or similar
			 device, or otherwise not immediately released to the water shall count against
			 the daily creel limit.
(3) For
			 commercial fishing purposes, to "land" means to tie up to a dock, the land or
			 structure attached to the land, bring ashore, off-load, or to begin to off-load
			 finfish, lobsters, crabs, sea scallops, or squid which were taken by commercial
			 fishing gear or taken for commercial purposes.
For sportfishing purposes, to "land" means to fail to
				immediately return any finfish, lobster, or crab, without avoidable injury, to
				the waters from which such species were taken.
(4) "Landing limit" is the total number or
			 weight of finfish, crustaceans, squid, sea scallops or horseshoe crabs, of any
			 species or species group that may be legally landed in this state.
(5) "Possession limit" regarding commercial
			 fishing is the total number or weight of finfish, crustaceans, squid, sea
			 scallops or horseshoe crabs, of any species or species group that may be
			 legally possessed while on the waters of the state by a holder of a license or
			 registration issued under authority of section
			 26-142a
			 of the general statutes concerning the taking of lobsters, finfish, crabs,
			 squid, sea scallops or horseshoe crabs.
(6) "Lath" is the wood used to construct the
			 outer surface of a lobster pot.