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Connecticut · Through Revised to January 1, 2026 (2026 Supplement to the General Statutes of Connecticut, applied over the base revision of January 1, 2025)

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-127: Conservation of bait species. Daily limit.

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  1. TITLE 26. FISHERIES AND GAME
  2. CHAPTER 490. FISHERIES AND GAME
  3. PART VIII*. SPORT FISHING

(a) Any person who transports out of this state any bait species taken from any of the waters of this state or who takes, assists in taking or attempts to take any bait species from any such waters for the purpose of transporting the same out of the state shall be guilty of a class D misdemeanor; but no provision of this section shall prevent the exportation of bait species propagated and grown in private waters registered with the commissioner as such or in licensed commercial hatcheries.

(b) No person shall take or land, on a daily basis, two hundred pounds or more of any of the following bait species: (1) Tidewater silverside, (2) Atlantic silverside, (3) sand lance or sand eels, or (4) bay anchovy.

(c) Any person who violates any provision of subsection (b) of this section shall have committed a separate infraction for each such violation.

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