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State Shellfisheries

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Sections
26-187 to 26-191

Commissioners; appointment; report. Compensation of shellfish commissioners. Office; clerk; expenses. Engineer; employment. Use of shellfisheries boat.

Exclusive jurisdiction of state.

Section
26-192a

Lead agency.

Section
26-192b

Standards for shellfish testing.

Section
26-192c

(Formerly Sec. 19a-96) - Inspection and regulations concerning shellfish. License.

Section
26-192d

(Formerly Sec. 19a-97) - Appeals from orders, suspension or revocation of a license.

Section
26-192e

(Formerly Sec. 19a-98) - Classification of coastal waters, shores and tidal flats for the taking of shellfish.

Section
26-192f

(Formerly Sec. 19a-99) - Penalties.

Section
26-192g

(Formerly Sec. 19a-100) - Enforcement.

Section
26-192h

(Formerly Sec. 19a-101) - License for the taking of shellfish from closed areas for certain purposes.

Section
26-192i

(Formerly Sec. 19a-95) - Shellfish; definition.

Section
26-192j

Pollution which affects shellfish grounds. Liability to municipal shellfish commission.

Section
26-192k

Shellfish relay from restricted relay grounds. Tag identification information confidential. Code re harvest location.

Section
26-192l

Department of Agriculture's shellfish research and survey vessel.

Section
26-192m

Aquaculture Advisory Council. Membership. Duties. Annual report.

Natural oyster beds: Map on file.

Leasing of shellfish grounds. Fee. Utility lines and public use structures. Shellfish removal or relocation costs. Annual host payments for Long Island Sound crossings. Deposit of fee proceeds. Designation of shellfish areas to regional agricultural science and technology education centers.

Section
26-194a

Lease of a state shellfish bed to a municipality for recreational shellfishing. Fees.

Section
26-194b

Lease of shellfish parcels for use by nonprofit education or conservation organizations.

State ground; determination of disputed boundaries.

Determination of disputed boundaries in other cases.

Commissioners' fees on hearings.

Fees for recording or copying.

Recording of transfers.

Survey and staking; maps; fee.

Release to the state.

Leasing beacon ground.

Buoying of certain natural beds.

Grant of right to plant or cultivate shellfish which interferes with established fishing right void.

Wardens; appointment, duties and powers.

Shellfish police.

Taxation of shellfish grounds.

Laying of tax.

Appeal.

Collection of tax.

Taxes unpaid five years; reversion.

Licensing and numbering of shellfish vessels. Fee.

License to work on natural beds.

Nonresident oystermen. Foreign vessels prohibited.

Power dredges. Local shellfish commissions. Use of power dredges to restore shellfish beds.

Penalty.

Use of chain bags on natural oyster beds.

License forfeited on conviction.

License to take conchs.

Shellfish spawning beds.

Sections
26-221 to 26-223

Mud dumping. Notice of intended dumping on private oyster beds. Dumping inspectors.

Deposit of injurious substances in tidal waters or on oyster ground. Penalty.

Section
26-224a

Depositing of shellfish in tidal waters. Regulations.

Stealing oysters.

Injury to enclosure.

Taking from designated but unmarked ground.

Taking shellfish between sunset and sunrise.

Injury to monuments.

Speculation in ground prohibited. Illegally staking ground.

Towing dredge prohibited.

Taking oysters from natural beds or the Housatonic or Saugatuck Rivers.

Taking oysters from Housatonic River.

Sections
26-233a and 26-234

Taking of oysters in Housatonic River other than by tongs. Greenwich Cove oysters.

Section
26-234a

Daily limit on oysters.

Section
26-234b

Taking of eastern oysters. Regulations.

Taking of clams. Recreational harvest limit. Penalties. Defacing or removal of sign.

Uncertified natural grounds.

Penalty.

Section
26-237a

Deposit of cultch material on state shellfish beds.

Section
26-237b

Shellfish Fund.

Section
26-237c

License for the harvesting of oysters from state shellfish grounds.

Section
26-237d

Municipal collection of sea water samples for shellfish harvest water classification.

Section
26-237e

Resource assessment permits.