2016 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 26 - Fisheries and Game
Chapter 491 - State Shellfisheries
Section 26-192h - (Formerly Sec. 19a-101). License for the taking of shellfish from closed areas for certain purposes.

Shellfish may be taken by commercial harvesters from areas classified as conditional-closed, restricted, or conditionally restricted when they are removed for transplanting, relay, including seed oyster harvesting, depuration or depletion from prohibited areas under licenses issued by the Department of Agriculture and under supervision of the department and local health agencies having jurisdiction, provided said licensee shall notify the designated local enforcement agency of the intended commencement, probable duration and termination of harvesting within that jurisdiction and shall be limited to quantities as may be established by a shellfish management plan reviewed by the Department of Agriculture and adopted by the local shellfish commission or other local agency having jurisdiction over the shellfish. The issuance of licenses by the Department of Agriculture shall not prohibit any town, city or borough from control of harvesting operations in approved areas or conditionally or temporarily closed areas on the basis of residence, quantity or size of shellfish harvested from specific areas, or time of harvesting, or nullify any state law controlling such operations on the basis of residence, quantity or size of shellfish harvested, or time of harvesting.

(1949 Rev., S. 4192; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 82-334, S. 1; P.A. 89-321, S. 8, 12; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(f); P.A. 04-189, S. 1.)

History: P.A. 77-614 replaced department of health with department of health services, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 82-334 amended section to authorize commercial harvesters to remove shellfish in limited quantities from permanently closed areas upon notice to the local shellfish commission and allowed local control of open areas or conditionally or temporarily closed areas; Sec. 19-59 transferred to Sec. 19a-101 in 1983; P.A. 89-321 made technical changes related to the classification system and the transfer of authority for the regulation of shellfishing from the department of health services to the department of agriculture; Sec. 19a-101 transferred to Sec. 26-192h in 1991; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 replaced Department of Agriculture with Department of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, thereby reversing the merger of the Departments of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective June 1, 2004.

See Sec. 26-192i for definition of “shellfish”.