2019 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 26 - Fisheries and Game
Chapter 490 - Fisheries and Game
Section 26-183 - Use of nets in Long Island Sound adjacent to Stratford.
No person shall draw, set or use any net, seine, pound net, fyke net or set net in any of the waters of Long Island Sound adjacent to the town of Stratford and within three hundred feet of the high water mark, nor in any creek or tributary thereof, from the southerly side of the Bridgeport airport canal, thence southerly along the shore line at Short Beach and along the shore line to Stratford Point lighthouse, so called, and thence westerly along said shore line to the boundary line between the town of Stratford and the city of Bridgeport. No provision of this subsection shall prohibit the catching of menhaden or the taking of eels, crabs or bait fish in nets, as authorized by statute.
(1949 Rev., S. 4997; P.A. 79-137; P.A. 85-434, S. 4, 6.)
History: P.A. 79-137 added Subsec. (b) prohibiting use of otter trawl in certain Long Island Sound waters from one hour after sunset to one hour before sunrise; P.A. 85-434 deleted Subsec. (b) which had prohibited operation of an otter trawl.
Former Subsec. (b) cited. 9 CA 228.
