General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 130 Marine Fish and Fisheries

• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions; rules of construction - Chapter 130, Section 1
  In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the following words shall have the following meanings and the following rules of construction shall apply: “Angling”,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Division of marine fisheries - Chapter 130, Section 1A
  The division of marine fisheries shall be within the department in the executive office of environmental affairs and shall be under the administrative supervision of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Marine fisheries advisory commission - Chapter 130, Section 1B
  There shall be in the division of marine fisheries a commission to be known as the marine fisheries advisory commission hereinafter called the commission, which...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Transferability of licenses, permits and certificates of registration; suspension or voidance for violation of marine laws; surrender; impounding fishing gear - Chapter 130, Section 2
  Licenses, permits and certificates of registration issued by the director or his agent shall not, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, be transferable and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1977, 363A, Sec. 66 - Chapter 130, Section 2A
  Repealed, 1977, 363A, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 381 - Chapter 130, Section 2B
  Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Duplicate license, permit, or certificate - Chapter 130, Section 3
  Whoever loses or by mistake or accident destroys a license, permit or certificate issued under any provision of this chapter may, upon application to the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Record of licenses, permits or certificates; inspection; endorsement of date of sale on license, permits and certificates - Chapter 130, Section 4
  The director or his agent shall make a record, in books kept therefor, of all licenses, permits or certificates issued by him under the authority...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Administrative inspections - Chapter 130, Section 4A
  The director, his assistants, an environmental police officer or deputy environmental police officer or a member of the state police may conduct an administrative inspection...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Jurisdictional boundaries - Chapter 130, Section 5
  The director and the director of the division of fisheries and wildlife, shall from time to time determine and establish the jurisdictional boundaries of each...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1964, 524, Sec. 6 - Chapter 130, Section 6 to 8
  Repealed, 1964, 524, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers of police officers - Chapter 130, Section 8A
  In a city or town bordering on coastal waters, a police officer employed on a full time, provisional or reserve basis shall, for the enforcement...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Searches, seizures and arrests without warrant - Chapter 130, Section 9
  The director, the deputy directors of enforcement, chiefs of enforcement, deputy chiefs of enforcement and all environmental police officers and deputy environmental police officers or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Issuance of search warrant - Chapter 130, Section 10
  A court or official authorized to issue warrants in criminal cases shall, upon a sworn complaint that the complainant believes that any fish unlawfully taken...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1964, 524, Sec. 6 - Chapter 130, Section 11
  Repealed, 1964, 524, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Seizure and forfeiture of fish unlawfully taken, boats and apparatus; sale; proceeds - Chapter 130, Section 12
  All fish unlawfully taken, held, possessed or dealt with contrary to any provision of this chapter or of any rule or regulation made under authority...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Display of fish upon demand; violations - Chapter 130, Section 13
  The director, the deputy directors of enforcement, chiefs of enforcement, deputy chiefs of enforcement and all environmental police officers and deputy environmental police officers, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Limitation of actions and prosecutions - Chapter 130, Section 14
  Actions and prosecutions under the laws relative to fish or marine fisheries shall, unless otherwise expressly provided, be commenced within one year after the time...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1963, 383, Sec. 2 - Chapter 130, Section 15
  Repealed, 1963, 383, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reciprocal enforcement of laws relating to marine fisheries - Chapter 130, Section 15A
  Any game protector, fish and game warden, coastal warden, conservation officer or other person who is empowered to make arrests for violations of the conservation...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Occupation of tide waters or work done therein subject to chapter 91 - Chapter 130, Section 16
  Any occupation under this chapter of tide waters or any work done therein, shall be subject to the pertinent provisions of chapter ninety-one.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers of director - Chapter 130, Section 17
  The director may (1) Destroy from time to time license books and stubs, licenses, permits, certificates of registration and blanks relative thereto, after the same...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Management of marine fisheries - Chapter 130, Section 17A
  Upon petition signed by any interested party or upon his own motion, the director shall submit to the marine fisheries advisory commission proposals relating to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Aquacultural enterprises; permits - Chapter 130, Section 17B
  Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter, the director may, by issuance of a written permit under such terms and conditions as he may impose, authorize...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Recreational saltwater fishing permit program; finfishing; for-hire fishing; categories; marine recreational fisheries development panel - Chapter 130, Section 17C
  (a) The director shall establish a state recreational saltwater fishing permit program to comply with the state exemption requirements of section 401 (g)(2) of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties for violation of Sec. 17C - Chapter 130, Section 17D
  Whoever violates section 17C, or any rule or regulation made under authority thereof, shall be punished by a fine per offense as promulgated by the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Illegal entry on property maintained for experiments, protection or propagation of fish - Chapter 130, Section 18
  Whoever without right enters in or upon any building or other structure or any area of land, flats or water, set apart and used by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Providing passage for salt water fish into fresh water to spawn; refusal or neglect to repair or construct fishway; operation and maintenance of fishways - Chapter 130, Section 19
  For the purpose of providing suitable passage for salt water fish coming into fresh water to spawn, the director or some person thereunto authorized by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Increase in supply of shellfish; co-operation with coastal cities and towns; treatment or purification of shellfish - Chapter 130, Section 20
  The director shall assist and co-operate with coastal cities and towns for the purpose of increasing the supply of shellfish and exterminating the enemies thereof...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Propagation of shellfish; co-operation with coastal cities and towns - Chapter 130, Section 20A
  The director shall assist and cooperate with coastal cities and towns for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a program of self-help to said cities...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Compilation of statistical information useful to marine fish industries; confidentiality; false reports; refusal or failure - Chapter 130, Section 21
  The director shall devise a system of statistical information useful to the commercial and recreational fishing industry of the commonwealth and may collect and compile...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1972, 789, Sec. 1 - Chapter 130, Section 22
  Repealed, 1972, 789, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Discharge of oil or other poisonous substances into coastal waters; use of explosives; penalty - Chapter 130, Section 23
  Except in the case of emergency imperilling life or property or an unavoidable accident or except in accordance with the terms of a permit issued...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violation of Sec. 23; tort liability - Chapter 130, Section 24
  Whoever, contrary to any provision of section twenty-three, himself, or by his agent or servant, does, or allows or suffers to be done, any act...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Discharge of sewage or other substance injurious to public health into coastal waters; approved drainage - Chapter 130, Section 25
  The entrance or discharge into the coastal waters, or the tributaries of such waters, of sewage or any other substance which might be injurious to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Jurisdiction and proceedings to enforce Secs. 23 to 25 - Chapter 130, Section 26
  The supreme judicial court or any justice thereof, and the superior court or any justice thereof, shall have jurisdiction in equity to enforce sections twenty-three,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Criminal and tort liability for discharge of sewage or other substance injurious to public health into coastal waters - Chapter 130, Section 27
  Whoever, contrary to any provision of section twenty-five, himself, or by his agent or servant, permits the entrance or discharge into or on any part...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1972, 784, Sec. 2 - Chapter 130, Section 27A
  Repealed, 1972, 784, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Exclusive right of ownership and control of fish of riparian owners of ponds; cultivation rights - Chapter 130, Section 28
  The proprietors of lands upon which a pond is created and maintained by excavating and enclosing the same and by the artificial flowing of same...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Construction of weir, pound net or fish trap - Chapter 130, Section 29
  The aldermen or city council of a city or the selectmen of a town lying upon coastal waters may, in writing, and upon blanks, supplied...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Marking of weir, pound net or fish trap with number of approval - Chapter 130, Section 30
  Any person who constructs or maintains any weir, pound net or fish trap after having received written approval therefor as provided in section twenty-nine shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Destruction or injury to weir, pound net or fish trap - Chapter 130, Section 31
  Whoever without the consent of the owner takes or uses or destroys, injures or molests any weir, pound net, fish trap, seine, set net or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fishing gear swept ashore by natural causes; recovery - Chapter 130, Section 32
  The owner of any fishing gear mentioned in section thirty-one which is swept ashore by storm or tide or other natural causes and deposited upon...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reports of owners of boats and fishing gear; marking of fish cars - Chapter 130, Section 33
  The owner of every boat, and the owner of every pound net, fish trap, weir, fyke net or similar contrivance, fishing pier, seine, drag or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Catching, buying and selling smelt between March 15 and June 15; wholesale or retail dealers - Chapter 130, Section 34
  Whoever, between March fifteenth and the following June fifteenth, catches or takes any smelt from the waters of the commonwealth, or whoever buys, receives, sells...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Taking smelt except by angling; inadvertent taking by net; possession of net, seine or trap as prima facie evidence - Chapter 130, Section 35
  Whoever takes or attempts to take a smelt in any other manner than by angling shall be punished by a fine of not less than...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Closing portions of streams flowing into coastal waters during spawning season - Chapter 130, Section 36
  For the purpose of protecting smelt and their spawn the director may close such portions of streams flowing into the coastal waters during the spawning...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Lobsters and crabs; licenses - Chapter 130, Section 37
  No person, either as principal, agent or employee, shall at any time catch lobsters or edible crabs in, or take them from, the coastal waters...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Green crabs - Chapter 130, Section 37A
  Any person may take green crabs, more specifically known as the species Carcinides Maenas, provided, that such person (a) gives written notice to such effect...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licenses; application; fee; eligibility; markings of buoys; exhibition of license - Chapter 130, Section 38
  A person shall not fish for or take lobsters or edible crabs in coastal waters or land the same in the commonwealth without a permit...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Display of license number and buoy colors - Chapter 130, Section 38A
  No person or persons shall take or attempt to take, by diving, lobsters, or edible crabs from the coastal waters, unless he displays his lobster...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Commercial licenses; catch data; transfers - Chapter 130, Section 38B
  All applicants issued a commercial fishermen permit for the taking of lobsters in coastal waters shall document their catch and sale of lobsters at such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Hours for tending, lifting or drawing lobster or crab pots or traps - Chapter 130, Section 39
  No person shall tend, lift, raise or draw a lobster or crab pot or trap, or take lobsters or edible crabs from such a pot...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Closed season on edible crabs - Chapter 130, Section 40
  No person, either as principal, agent or employee, shall between January first and the following April thirtieth, both dates inclusive, take or catch edible crabs,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Taking or selling female lobsters bearing eggs - Chapter 130, Section 41
  Any person who takes, sells or has in possession any female lobster bearing externally attached eggs shall be punished for the first offense by a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Taking of female egg-bearing lobsters while fishing or landing - Chapter 130, Section 41A
  Any person who takes, sells or has in his possession any female lobster from which the eggs have been removed by means other than natural...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Plants for propagation of lobsters; establishment and maintenance - Chapter 130, Section 42
  The director shall, to the extent of appropriation or appropriations therefor, establish and maintain a plant or plants for the propagation of lobsters by rearing...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Conditions for taking or possession of egg-bearing lobsters; rearing and liberating of young; disposition of lobsters - Chapter 130, Section 43
  Between March first and October thirty-first, both dates inclusive, in any year, the director may authorize the taking or possession of egg-bearing lobsters by any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale or possession of short lobsters; mutilation of short lobsters; prima facie evidence - Chapter 130, Section 44
  Whoever sells, or offers for sale, or has in possession for a period longer than is necessary for immediate measuring, or for any purpose other...
• Massachusetts General Laws - V-notched lobster - Chapter 130, Section 44A
  The director may, by regulation approved by the marine fisheries advisory commission and promulgated pursuant to chapter thirty A, establish a program to protect V-notched...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Limits on sales of lobsters taken by methods other than pots or traps - Chapter 130, Section 44B
  No commercial fishing vessel landing lobsters taken by any method other than by pots or traps shall land for the purpose of sale or distribution...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1964, 524, Sec. 6 - Chapter 130, Section 45 46
  Repealed, 1964, 524, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Marking barrels, boxes or containers of lobsters or lobster meat - Chapter 130, Section 47
  All barrels, boxes or other containers containing lobsters, or lobster meat after the same has been taken from the shell, shall, before being delivered to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Disposal of lobsters or lobster meat seized in unmarked containers - Chapter 130, Section 48
  In case of seizure by any duly authorized officer of any lobsters or lobster meat contained in any barrel, box or other container which is...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Liability of carrier of unmarked containers of lobsters or lobster meat - Chapter 130, Section 49
  Any carrier who knowingly receives or carries from place to place any lobster or lobster meat in barrels, boxes or other containers not marked as...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Forfeiture or liberation of seized lobsters or lobster meat - Chapter 130, Section 50
  When any lobster or lobster meat is seized for the violation of any provision of section forty-seven, the officer making the seizure shall immediately notify...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of native lobsters; representations for purposes of sale - Chapter 130, Section 51
  No person shall sell, or represent for the purpose of sale, any lobster as a native lobster unless the same shall have been originally caught...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of crabmeat; representations for purposes of sale - Chapter 130, Section 51A
  No retail establishment or person shall sell or represent for the purpose of sale, any item as crabmeat unless the same is from crustaceans of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Taking of eels, shellfish and sea worms; areas in which commercial taking prohibited - Chapter 130, Section 52
  The selectmen of a town bordering upon coastal waters, if so authorized by their town, and the board of aldermen or the city council of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Form of permits; record of issuance - Chapter 130, Section 53
  All permits issued under section fifty-two shall be issued in the name of the body authorizing the issuing of the same; but, under a vote...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Cultivation, propagation and protection of shellfish; appropriations by cities and towns; close seasons - Chapter 130, Section 54
  Cities by a vote of the board of aldermen, or city council, and towns by a vote at a town meeting, may appropriate money for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Aliens; shellfish taken for commercial purposes; permits - Chapter 130, Section 55
  No permit for the taking of shellfish for commercial purposes, except in the city of New Bedford, shall be issued by the aldermen or councilmen...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Joint control by municipalities of marine fisheries - Chapter 130, Section 56
  Whenever under the authority of any law two or more municipalities have joint property in, or the right of joint control of, any marine fisheries...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Shellfish aquaculture licenses - Chapter 130, Section 57
  The city council or mayor of any city, or the selectmen of any town, may upon written application, accompanied by plans sufficient to show the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Transfer or renewal of licenses - Chapter 130, Section 58
  Any license granted under section fifty-seven or corresponding provisions of earlier laws may be transferred with the approval of the city council or selectmen to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application for license; request for survey and plan - Chapter 130, Section 59
  Any person, firm or corporation qualified as provided in section fifty-seven and desiring to obtain a license thereunder shall present to the city council or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Hearing on issuance of license; notice; publication - Chapter 130, Section 60
  No license referred to in section fifty-seven shall be granted, transferred or renewed until after a public hearing, due notice of which has been posted...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Marking of territory covered by license; maintenance of markings - Chapter 130, Section 61
  The licensee upon receiving his license shall cause the territory covered thereby to be plainly marked out by monuments, marks or ranges and by stakes...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Records of licensed areas, licenses granted, transfers and renewals - Chapter 130, Section 62
  The aldermen, city council or selectmen shall keep in their offices plans showing all such licensed areas, and, in a book devoted to that purpose...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Exclusive rights of licensees or transferees; trespass on licensed area; treble damages - Chapter 130, Section 63
  The licensee or transferee, or his legal representatives, shall, for the purposes set forth in section fifty-seven and in accord with the terms set forth...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annual fee for license - Chapter 130, Section 64
  Every such licensee or transferee shall pay to the city or town, on or before a date to be fixed by the aldermen, city council...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annual report of shellfish planted, produced and marketed; estimate of growing shellfish; forfeiture for deficiency - Chapter 130, Section 65
  [ Text of section effective until January 7, 2014. For text effective January 7, 2014.]Every licensee or transferee of a license referred to in section...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Destruction or removal of marks or bounds; double damages - Chapter 130, Section 66
  Whoever wilfully injures, defaces, destroys or removes any mark or bound used to define the extent of any shellfish license or grant, or places any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Taking shellfish from licensed grounds or beds without consent - Chapter 130, Section 67
  Whoever works a dredge, oyster tongs or rakes, or any other implement for the taking of shellfish of any description upon any shellfish grounds or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Digging, taking or carrying away shellfish from licensed waters, flats or creeks at night - Chapter 130, Section 68
  No person shall dig, take or carry away any shellfish or shells between one half hour after sunset and one half hour before sunrise, by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1994, 60, Sec. 135 - Chapter 130, Section 68A
  Repealed, 1994, 60, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Seed quahaugs, clams or oysters; taking or possession - Chapter 130, Section 69
  Whoever takes or has in his possession quahaugs or soft shelled clams or oysters smaller than the minimum size established by the director through regulations,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Taking and sale of scallops; adult and seed scallops; culling - Chapter 130, Section 70
  No person shall take from the flats or coastal waters of the commonwealth scallops other than adult scallops, or sell or offer for sale or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Close season on scallops - Chapter 130, Section 71
  Except as provided in sections seventy and seventy-three, no person shall take scallops between April first and the following October first from the flats or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Limitation on catch of scallops - Chapter 130, Section 72
  No person shall for any purpose take more than a total of ten bushels of scallops, including shells, in one day, unless authorized by the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Granting modification in respect to close season and number of scallops that may be taken; petition; investigation - Chapter 130, Section 73
  The provisions of sections seventy-one and seventy-two in respect to the open and close season, and in respect to the number of scallops that may...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Determination of contaminated areas; notice of results - Chapter 130, Section 74
  The division of marine fisheries shall examine from time to time as conditions may require, or upon request of the commissioner of public health, the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Emergency designation of contaminated shellfish areas; enforcement; notice to local authorities - Chapter 130, Section 74A
  Both the department of public health and the division of marine fisheries shall have the authority immediately to designate shellfish areas as contaminated and that...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Shellfish from contaminated areas, permits, purification; shellfish conservation - Chapter 130, Section 75
  The director may grant, and may revoke, written permits for the digging or taking of shellfish from an area determined under section seventy-four or corresponding...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Construction and operation; powers of commissioner - Chapter 130, Section 76
  The director of the division of marine fisheries may construct and operate shellfish purification plants for the treatment of shellfish taken from areas determined under...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Cost of operation - Chapter 130, Section 77
  For the purpose of partially defraying the costs of the operation and maintenance of shellfish purification plants, the division of marine fisheries shall charge the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1961, 506, Sec. 3 - Chapter 130, Section 78 79
  Repealed, 1961, 506, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Commercial permits and certificates; issuance; transfers; wholesale dealer permit; regulated marine fishery permit; rules and regulations; cancellation; revocation; penalties - Chapter 130, Section 80
  Except as permitted in sections thirty-eight and seventy-five, no person shall fish for or take fish for commercial purposes in the coastal waters, or land...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Importation of shellfish for consumption; certification; labeling of containers - Chapter 130, Section 81
  No person shall transport, or cause to be transported, into this commonwealth for consumption as food any shellfish taken or dug from areas outside the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Source of supply of shellfish; tags or labels; contents; record of markings on tags or labels; inspection - Chapter 130, Section 82
  No wholesale or retail dealer in shellfish, and no person holding a victualler’s license, shall receive any shellfish unless the same bears a label or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Permit fees; types of permits - Chapter 130, Section 83
  For the purposes of defraying the costs of the division’s research, management and other activities including administrative and operating expenses, and the cost of issuing...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1964, 524, Sec. 6 - Chapter 130, Section 84 to 91
  Repealed, 1964, 524, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of scallops; soaked scallops; scallops not in shell; marking of containers; common carriers - Chapter 130, Section 92
  No person shall sell, exchange, transport or deliver, or offer or expose for sale, exchange or deliver, or have in his custody or possession with...
• Massachusetts General Laws - 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 - Chapter 130, Section 93
  A town may open ditches, sluiceways or canals into any pond within its limits not then in private possession for the introduction and propagation in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Petition by city and town to control and regulate public fisheries for alewives; regulation and lease of fisheries - Chapter 130, Section 94
  The board of aldermen or the city council of any city wherein there is a public fishery for alewives, or the selectmen of a town,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Taking fish from fisheries without permission - Chapter 130, Section 95
  Whoever takes, kills or hauls onshore or disturbs, injures, hinders or obstructs the passage of any herring, alewives or other swimming marine food fish in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Impairment of private property rights; contracts; leasing at public auction - Chapter 130, Section 96
  Sections ninety-three, ninety-four and ninety-five shall not impair the private rights of any person under any law passed before April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1973, 653 - Chapter 130, Section 97 97A
  Repealed, 1973,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Shellfish constables; appointment; powers and duties; notice of appointment - Chapter 130, Section 98
  In each city and town bordering on coastal waters the mayor or the selectmen, as the case may be, shall appoint a person or persons,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Carrying fish out of commonwealth in vessel or smack owned without commonwealth - Chapter 130, Section 99
  Whoever, other than a common carrier, carries out of the commonwealth in any vessel or smack owned without the commonwealth any fish, except oysters, taken...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1978, 80 - Chapter 130, Section 100
  Repealed, 1978,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Striped bass; regulations - Chapter 130, Section 100A
  The director, with the approval of the marine fisheries advisory commission, shall, adopt rules and regulations relative to the taking, sale or possession of striped...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Taking striped bass; methods; traps - Chapter 130, Section 100B
  No person shall take, or attempt to take, with or by the use of a net, seine or any other contrivance of any kind or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Shad; methods of taking - Chapter 130, Section 100C
  No person shall take, or attempt to take, with or by the use of a net, seine or any other contrivance of any kind or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Eels; methods of taking - Chapter 130, Section 100D
  No person shall take or attempt to take eels, Anguilla rostrata, by any contrivance other than by nets, pots, spears, or angling. The director is...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1962, 222 - Chapter 130, Section 101
  Repealed, 1962,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Gray seal; protection - Chapter 130, Section 101A
  No person shall wilfully detain, hunt, kill or injure a gray seal (halichoerus gryphus), also called a Nantucket horsehead. Whoever violates any provision of this...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Marine plants; regulation of taking - Chapter 130, Section 102
  No person shall take by mechanical means Irish moss or kelp, marine plants of the species chondrus crispus, except with the written approval of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Starfish, winkles or cockles; disposition above high water mark - Chapter 130, Section 103
  Whoever catches or takes from, the coastal waters any starfish, or winkles and their egg strings, or cockles shall deposit the same at some place...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Effect on special statutes relating to fisheries in particular places - Chapter 130, Section 104
  This chapter shall not be deemed to affect any privileges granted in any special statute relating to fisheries in any particular place, except such provisions...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Protection of coastal wetlands - Chapter 130, Section 105
  The commissioner of environmental protection may from time to time, for the purpose of promoting the public safety, health and welfare, and protecting public and...

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