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Local Shellfisheries

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Town oyster ground committee.

Certain grants of oyster, clam and mussel grounds valid.

Town ground; designation; designation requirements and prohibitions; hearing.

Name of owner to appear on stakes, buoys and markers. Buoy specifications.

Granting of designation; condition precedent.

Evidence of designation to be recorded.

Lost title; redesignation. Penalty.

Fees of shellfish commissions.

Designation of disputed lines in local jurisdiction.

Removal of beds improperly staked.

Procedure to dam creek or inlet.

Private ownership in cultivated shellfish.

Taxation of town ground.

Natural clam beds not to be designated.

Taking of hard or round clams; size.

Trespass on designated ground.

Sections
26-254 and 26-255

Catching of shellfish on bridge pier. Plowing for shellfish along Long Island Sound.

Injury to pond gates and dams.

Local shellfish grounds under state control.

Section
26-257a

Local shellfish commissions.

Location of local natural clam or oyster beds.

Maps to be lodged in town clerk's office.

Selectmen of Milford and West Haven may prohibit the taking of clams.

Taking of clams from Oyster River in West Haven and Milford.

Taking of oysters from natural ground in Milford.

Sections
26-263 to 26-265

Taking of clams from Gulf Pond in Milford. Dredging prohibited in New Haven harbor. Dredging in New Haven, Morris Creek and East Haven.

Shellfisheries in Branford. Grants. Requirements and prohibitions of grants.

Sections
26-267 to 26-270

Branford and Farm Rivers. Branford or East Haven shores. Taking of clams from clam flats in and adjacent to the town of Branford. Taking of oysters and claims in Westbrook.

Sections
26-271 to 26-275

Powers of Guilford and Madison selectmen. Shellfisheries in Guilford. Restriction of powers of Guilford. Limitation of taking shellfish in Guilford and Madison. Dredging in waters.

Hammonasset River; limitation.

Clinton and Madison; special constables.

Jurisdiction of special constables.

Madison; town rights.

Taking of shellfish at Saugatuck Shores in Westport.

Sections
26-281 to 26-283

Protection of clams and oysters in Fairfield. Taking of clams from Fairfield Beach. Clamming restricted in Mill River in Fairfield.

Thames River oysters; limitation.

Taking of oysters and clams in Old Lyme regulated.

Taking oysters from the inland waters of East Lyme and Waterford.

Waterford-East Lyme shellfish commission. Taking of shellfish from Niantic River.

Escallops.

Dredging for escallops in Little Narragansett Bay or Stonington Harbor.

Taking of escallops in Groton.

Taking of oysters and clams in Stonington.

Section
26-291a

Taking of clams and oysters in Stonington.

Taking of escallops in the waters of Stonington.

Section
26-292a

Cockenoe Flats shellfish grounds, Westport. Jurisdiction. Recreational clamming permits.

Section
26-292b

Hand-harvesting horseshoe crabs in the town of Stratford. Prohibition. Violation.

Section
26-292c

Recommendations for horseshoe crab taking restricted areas.

Prosecutions.

Penalty.