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PART I ADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT
TITLE XIX AGRICULTURE AND CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 130 MARINE FISH AND FISHERIES
- Section 1 Definitions; rules of construction
- Section 1A Division of marine fisheries
- Section 1B Marine fisheries advisory commission
- Section 2 Transferability of licenses, permits and certificates of registration; suspension or voidance for violation of marine laws; surrender; impounding fishing gear
- Section 2A Repealed, 1977, 363A, Sec. 66
- Section 2B Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 381
- Section 3 Duplicate license, permit, or certificate
- Section 4 Record of licenses, permits or certificates; inspection; endorsement of date of sale on license, permits and certificates
- Section 4A Administrative inspections
- Section 5 Jurisdictional boundaries
- Section 6 to 8 Repealed, 1964, 524, Sec. 6
- Section 8A Powers of police officers
- Section 9 Searches, seizures and arrests without warrant
- Section 10 Issuance of search warrant
- Section 11 Repealed, 1964, 524, Sec. 6
- Section 12 Seizure and forfeiture of fish unlawfully taken, boats and apparatus; sale; proceeds
- Section 13 Display of fish upon demand; violations
- Section 14 Limitation of actions and prosecutions
- Section 15 Repealed, 1963, 383, Sec. 2
- Section 15A Reciprocal enforcement of laws relating to marine fisheries
- Section 16 Occupation of tide waters or work done therein subject to chapter 91
- Section 17 Powers of director
- Section 17A Management of marine fisheries
- Section 17B Aquacultural enterprises; permits
- Section 17C Recreational saltwater fishing permit program; finfishing; for-hire fishing; categories; marine recreational fisheries development panel
- Section 17D Penalties for violation of Sec. 17C
- Section 18 Illegal entry on property maintained for experiments, protection or propagation of fish
- Section 19 Providing passage for salt water fish into fresh water to spawn; refusal or neglect to repair or construct fishway; operation and maintenance of fishways
- Section 20 Increase in supply of shellfish; co-operation with coastal cities and towns; treatment or purification of shellfish
- Section 20A Propagation of shellfish; co-operation with coastal cities and towns
- Section 21 Compilation of statistical information useful to marine fish industries; confidentiality; false reports; refusal or failure
- Section 22 Repealed, 1972, 789, Sec. 1
- Section 23 Discharge of oil or other poisonous substances into coastal waters; use of explosives; penalty
- Section 24 Violation of Sec. 23; tort liability
- Section 25 Discharge of sewage or other substance injurious to public health into coastal waters; approved drainage
- Section 26 Jurisdiction and proceedings to enforce Secs. 23 to 25
- Section 27 Criminal and tort liability for discharge of sewage or other substance injurious to public health into coastal waters
- Section 27A Repealed, 1972, 784, Sec. 2
- Section 28 Exclusive right of ownership and control of fish of riparian owners of ponds; cultivation rights
- Section 29 Construction of weir, pound net or fish trap
- Section 30 Marking of weir, pound net or fish trap with number of approval
- Section 31 Destruction or injury to weir, pound net or fish trap
- Section 32 Fishing gear swept ashore by natural causes; recovery
- Section 33 Reports of owners of boats and fishing gear; marking of fish cars
- Section 34 Catching, buying and selling smelt between March 15 and June 15; wholesale or retail dealers
- Section 35 Taking smelt except by angling; inadvertent taking by net; possession of net, seine or trap as prima facie evidence
- Section 36 Closing portions of streams flowing into coastal waters during spawning season
- Section 37 Lobsters and crabs; licenses
- Section 37A Green crabs
- Section 38 Licenses; application; fee; eligibility; markings of buoys; exhibition of license
- Section 38A Display of license number and buoy colors
- Section 38B Commercial licenses; catch data; transfers
- Section 39 Hours for tending, lifting or drawing lobster or crab pots or traps
- Section 40 Closed season on edible crabs
- Section 41 Taking or selling female lobsters bearing eggs
- Section 41A Taking of female egg-bearing lobsters while fishing or landing
- Section 42 Plants for propagation of lobsters; establishment and maintenance
- Section 43 Conditions for taking or possession of egg-bearing lobsters; rearing and liberating of young; disposition of lobsters
- Section 44 Sale or possession of short lobsters; mutilation of short lobsters; prima facie evidence
- Section 44A V–notched lobster
- Section 44B Limits on sales of lobsters taken by methods other than pots or traps
- Section 45, 46 Repealed, 1964, 524, Sec. 6
- Section 47 Marking barrels, boxes or containers of lobsters or lobster meat
- Section 48 Disposal of lobsters or lobster meat seized in unmarked containers
- Section 49 Liability of carrier of unmarked containers of lobsters or lobster meat
- Section 50 Forfeiture or liberation of seized lobsters or lobster meat
- Section 51 Sale of native lobsters; representations for purposes of sale
- Section 51A Sale of crabmeat; representations for purposes of sale
- Section 52 Taking of eels, shellfish and sea worms; areas in which commercial taking prohibited
- Section 53 Form of permits; record of issuance
- Section 54 Cultivation, propagation and protection of shellfish; appropriations by cities and towns; close seasons
- Section 55 Aliens; shellfish taken for commercial purposes; permits
- Section 56 Joint control by municipalities of marine fisheries
- Section 57 Shellfish aquaculture licenses
- Section 58 Transfer or renewal of licenses
- Section 59 Application for license; request for survey and plan
- Section 60 Hearing on issuance of license; notice; publication
- Section 61 Marking of territory covered by license; maintenance of markings
- Section 62 Records of licensed areas, licenses granted, transfers and renewals
- Section 63 Exclusive rights of licensees or transferees; trespass on licensed area; treble damages
- Section 64 Annual fee for license
- Section 65 Annual report of shellfish planted, produced and marketed; estimate of growing shellfish; forfeiture for deficiency
- Section 66 Destruction or removal of marks or bounds; double damages
- Section 67 Taking shellfish from licensed grounds or beds without consent
- Section 68 Digging, taking or carrying away shellfish from licensed waters, flats or creeks at night
- Section 68A Repealed, 1994, 60, Sec. 135
- Section 69 Seed quahaugs, clams or oysters; taking or possession
- Section 70 Taking and sale of scallops; adult and seed scallops; culling
- Section 71 Close season on scallops
- Section 72 Limitation on catch of scallops
- Section 73 Granting modification in respect to close season and number of scallops that may be taken; petition; investigation
- Section 74 Determination of contaminated areas; notice of results
- Section 74A Emergency designation of contaminated shellfish areas; enforcement; notice to local authorities
- Section 75 Shellfish from contaminated areas, permits, purification; shellfish conservation
- Section 76 Construction and operation; powers of commissioner
- Section 77 Cost of operation
- Section 78, 79 Repealed, 1961, 506, Sec. 3
- Section 80 Commercial permits and certificates; issuance; transfers; wholesale dealer permit; regulated marine fishery permit; rules and regulations; cancellation; revocation; penalties
- Section 81 Importation of shellfish for consumption; certification; labeling of containers
- Section 82 Source of supply of shellfish; tags or labels; contents; record of markings on tags or labels; inspection
- Section 83 Permit fees; types of permits
- Section 84 to 91 Repealed, 1964, 524, Sec. 6
- Section 92 Sale of scallops; soaked scallops; scallops not in shell; marking of containers; common carriers
- Section 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 94 Petition by city and town to control and regulate public fisheries for alewives; regulation and lease of fisheries
- Section 95 Taking fish from fisheries without permission
- Section 96 Impairment of private property rights; contracts; leasing at public auction
- Section 97, 97A Repealed, 1973, 653
- Section 98 Shellfish constables; appointment; powers and duties; notice of appointment
- Section 99 Carrying fish out of commonwealth in vessel or smack owned without commonwealth
- Section 100 Repealed, 1978, 80
- Section 100A Striped bass; regulations
- Section 100B Taking striped bass; methods; traps
- Section 100C Shad; methods of taking
- Section 100D Eels; methods of taking
- Section 101 Repealed, 1962, 222
- Section 101A Gray seal; protection
- Section 102 Marine plants; regulation of taking
- Section 103 Starfish, winkles or cockles; disposition above high water mark
- Section 104 Effect on special statutes relating to fisheries in particular places
- Section 105 Protection of coastal wetlands
- Section 106 Possessing, selling, offering for sale, trading or distributing of shark fins prohibited; exceptions; penalty for violation
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