Chapter 130 - MARINE FISH AND FISHERIES

Section 130:1 - Definitions; rules of construction
Section 130:1A - Division of marine fisheries
Section 130:1B - Marine fisheries advisory commission
Section 130:1C - Shellfish advisory panel
Section 130:2 - Transferability of licenses, permits and certificates of registration; suspension or voidance for violation of marine laws; surrender; impounding fishing gear
Section 130:2B - [Repealed]
Section 130:3 - Duplicate license, permit, or certificate; application; fee; affidavit
Section 130:4 - Record of licenses, permits or certificates; inspection; endorsement of date of sale on license, permits and certificates
Section 130:4A - Administrative inspections
Section 130:5 - Jurisdictional boundaries
Section 130:8A - Powers of police officers
Section 130:9 - Searches, seizures and arrests without warrant
Section 130:10 - Issuance of search warrant
Section 130:12 - Seizure and forfeiture of fish unlawfully taken; boats and apparatus; sale; proceeds
Section 130:13 - Display of fish upon demand; violations
Section 130:14 - Limitation of actions and prosecutions
Section 130:15A - Reciprocal enforcement of laws relating to marine fisheries
Section 130:16 - Occupation of tide waters or work done therein subject to chapter 91
Section 130:17 - Powers of director
Section 130:17A - Management of marine fisheries
Section 130:17B - Aquacultural enterprises; permits
Section 130:17C - State recreational saltwater fishing permit program
Section 130:17D - Penalty for violation of sec. 17C
Section 130:18 - Illegal entry on property maintained for experiments, protection or propagation of fish
Section 130:19 - Providing passage for salt water fish into fresh water to spawn; order of director; refusal or neglect to repair or construct fishway; operation and maintenance of fishways
Section 130:20 - Co-operation with coastal cities and towns to increase supply of shellfish; expenditures; methods for treatment or purification of shellfish; contracts with federal government
Section 130:20A - Co-operation with coastal cities and towns for propagation of shellfish; funding program
Section 130:21 - Compilation of statistical information useful to marine fish industries; confidentiality; false reports; refusal or failure
Section 130:23 - Discharge of oil or other poisonous substances into coastal waters; use of explosives; penalty
Section 130:24 - Violation of sec. 23; tort liability
Section 130:25 - Discharge of sewage or other substance injurious to public health into coastal waters; approved drainage
Section 130:26 - Jurisdiction and proceedings to enforce secs. 23 to 25
Section 130:27 - Criminal and tort liability for discharge of sewage or other substance injurious to public health into coastal waters
Section 130:28 - Exclusive right of ownership and control of fish of riparian owners of ponds; cultivation rights
Section 130:29 - Construction of weir, pound net or fish trap; authorization; unauthorized construction
Section 130:30 - Marking of weir, pound net or fish trap with number of approval
Section 130:31 - Destruction or injury to weir, pound net or fish trap
Section 130:32 - Fishing gear swept ashore by natural causes; recovery
Section 130:33 - Annual reports of owners of boats and fishing gear; monthly reports; marking of fish cars; violations
Section 130:34 - Catching, buying and selling smelts between March 15 and June 15; wholesale or retail dealers
Section 130:35 - Taking smelts except by angling; inadvertent taking by net; possession of net, seine or trap; prime facie evidence
Section 130:36 - Closing portions of streams flowing into coastal waters during spawning season
Section 130:37 - Lobsters and crabs; license; regulations; violations
Section 130:37A - Green crabs
Section 130:38 - Licenses; application; fee; eligibility; markings of buoys; exhibition of license
Section 130:38A - Display of license number and buoy colors
Section 130:38B - Commercial licenses; catch data; renewal; transfers; appeals
Section 130:39 - Hours for tending, lifting or drawing lobster or crab pots or traps; exceptions
Section 130:40 - [Repealed]
Section 130:41 - Taking or selling female lobsters bearing externally attached eggs; fines
Section 130:41A - Taking or selling female lobsters from which eggs have been removed; fines
Section 130:42 - Plants for propagation of lobsters; establishment and maintenance; appropriations
Section 130:43 - Conditions for taking or possession of egg-bearing lobsters; rearing and liberating of young; disposition of lobsters by director
Section 130:44 - Sale or possession of short lobsters; mutilation of short lobsters; prima facie evidence
Section 130:44A - V-notched lobster
Section 130:44B - Limits on sales of lobsters taken by methods other than pots or traps
Section 130:47 - Marking barrels, boxes or containers of lobsters or lobster meat
Section 130:48 - Disposal of lobsters or lobster meat seized in unmarked containers
Section 130:49 - Liability of carrier of unmarked containers of lobsters or lobster meat
Section 130:50 - Forfeiture or liberation of seized lobsters or lobster meat
Section 130:51 - Sale of native lobsters; representations for purposes of sale
Section 130:51A - Sale of crabmeat; representations for purposes of sale
Section 130:52 - Taking of eels, shellfish and sea worms; permits; fees; publication of regulations; records; temporary control by director; areas in which commercial taking prohibited
Section 130:53 - Form of permits; record of issuance
Section 130:54 - Appropriations by cities and towns for cultivation, propagation and protection of shellfish; close seasons
Section 130:55 - Permits to aliens to take shellfish for commercial purposes; eligibility
Section 130:56 - Joint control by municipalities of marine fisheries
Section 130:57 - Shellfish aquaculture licenses; application; renewal; transfer
Section 130:58 - Transfer or renewal of licenses
Section 130:59 - Application for license; request for survey and plan
Section 130:60 - Hearing on issuance of license; notice; publication
Section 130:61 - Marking of territory covered by license; maintenance of markings; penalty for failure thereof
Section 130:62 - Records of licensed areas, licenses granted, transfers and renewals; recording; fee; inspection of records
Section 130:63 - Exclusive rights of licensees or transferees; trespass on licensed area; treble damages
Section 130:64 - Annual fee for license; non-payment
Section 130:65 - Annual report of shellfish planted, produced and marketed; estimate of growing shellfish; forfeiture for deficiency
Section 130:66 - Destruction or removal of marks or bounds; double damages
Section 130:67 - Taking shellfish from licensed grounds or beds without consent
Section 130:68 - Digging, taking or carrying away shellfish from licensed waters, flats or creeks at night; violations
Section 130:69 - Seed quahaugs, clams or oysters; taking or possession
Section 130:70 - Taking and sale of scallops; adult and seed scallops; culling; rules and regulations
Section 130:71 - Close season on scallops
Section 130:72 - Limitation on catch of scallops
Section 130:73 - Granting modification in respect to close season and number of scallops that may be taken; petition; investigation
Section 130:74 - Determination of contaminated areas; notice of results; procedures
Section 130:74A - Emergency designation of contaminated shellfish areas; enforcement; notice to local authorities
Section 130:75 - Shellfish from contaminated areas, permits, purification; shellfish conservation; violations
Section 130:76 - Construction and operation; powers of commissioner
Section 130:77 - Cost of operation
Section 130:80 - Commercial permits and certificates; issuance; transfers; wholesale dealer permit; regulated marine fishery permit; rules and regulations; cancellation; revocation; penalties
Section 130:81 - Importation of shellfish for consumption; certification; labeling of containers; penalty; enforcement
Section 130:82 - Source of supply of shellfish; tags or labels; contents; record of markings on tags or labels; inspection
Section 130:83 - Permit fees; types of permits
Section 130:92 - Sale of scallops; soaked scallops; scallops not in shell; marking of containers; common carriers
Section 130:93 - Opening ditches or canals for fisheries for propagation of herring, alewives and other food fish; acquisition of land and waters; regulation and leasing of fisheries
Section 130:94 - Petition by city and town to control and regulate public fisheries for alewives; hearing; regulation and lease of fisheries
Section 130:95 - Taking fish from fisheries without permission
Section 130:96 - Impairment of private property rights; contracts; leasing at public auction; notice
Section 130:98 - Shellfish constables; appointment; powers and duties; notice of appointment
Section 130:99 - [Repealed]
Section 130:100A - Striped bass; regulations; violations
Section 130:100B - Taking striped bass; methods; traps
Section 130:100C - Shad; methods of taking; penalty
Section 130:100D - Eels; methods of taking; violations; penalties
Section 130:101A - Gray seal; protection; penalty
Section 130:102 - Marine plants; regulation of taking
Section 130:103 - [Repealed]
Section 130:104 - Effect on special statutes relating to fisheries in particular places
Section 130:105 - Protection of coastal wetlands
Section 130:106 - Possession or sale of shark fin; penalty for violation