New Hampshire Code of Administrative Rules
Fis - Executive Director, Fish and Game Department
Chapter Fis 400 - FRESHWATER FISHING SEASONS AND RULES
Part Fis 402 - GENERAL RESTRICTIONS
Section Fis 402.08 - Possession and Use of Live Fish for Bait
Universal Citation: NH Admin Rules Fis 402.08
Current through Register No. 40, October 3, 2024
(a) Only the following species shall be possessed and used as live fish for bait when fishing any freshwaters of the state:
(1)
Rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax);
(2) Longnose dace (Rhinichthys
cataractae);
(3) Blacknose
dace (Rhinichthys atratulus);
(4) Northern redbelly dace (Phoxinus
eos);
(5) Lake chub
(Couesius plumbeus);
(6) Creek chub (Semotilius
atromaculatus);
(7)
Fallfish (Semotilius corporalis);
(8) Golden shiner (Notemigonus
crysoleucas);
(9) Common
shiner (Luxilus cornutus);
(10) Emerald shiner (Notropis
atherinoides);
(11)
Spottail shiner (Notropis hudsonius);
(12) Silvery minnow (Hybognathus
nuchalis);
(13) Creek
chubsucker (Erimyzon oblongus);
(14) Longnose sucker (Catostomus
catostomus);
(15) White
sucker (Catostomus commersoni); and
(16) Killifish/tomcod
(Fundulus sp.).
#5718, eff 1-1-94; ss by #6086, eff 1-1-96; ss by #6629, eff 1-1-98; ss by #8119, eff 1-1-05; ss by #9249, eff 1-1-09
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