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Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 (PDF) Watercraft Excise Tax Decal
- Chapter 2 (PDF) Aquaculture Lease Regulations
- Chapter 3 (PDF) Foreign Fish Processing within the State of Maine's Internal Waters
- Chapter 4 (PDF) Certification, Recertification, Revocation of Certification for Municipal Shellfish Conservation Warden
- Chapter 5 (PDF) Confidentiality of Fisheries Statistics
- Chapter 6 (PDF) Lobster Processing
- Chapter 7 (PDF) Requirements for Municipalities Having Shellfish Conservation Programs
- Chapter 8 (PDF) Landings Program
- Chapter 9 (PDF) Harvester: Shellstock Harvesting, Handling and Sanitation
- Chapter 10 (PDF) Clams and Quahogs
- Chapter 11 (PDF) Scallops
- Chapter 12 (PDF) Mussels
- Chapter 13 (PDF) Whelks and Periwinkles
- Chapter 14 (PDF) Oysters
- Chapter 22 (PDF) Retail Shellfish
- Chapter 24 (PDF) Importation of Live Marine Organisms
- Chapter 25 (PDF) Lobster and Crab
The Interstate Fishery Management Plan for American Lobster from the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission - scroll down for Amendment 3 and all the subsequent Addenda (PDF) - Chapter 26 (PDF) Sea Urchin
- Chapter 27 (PDF) Sea Cucumber
- Chapter 28 (PDF) Marine Worms
- Chapter 29 (PDF) Seaweed
- Chapter 30 (PDF) River Herring
- Chapter 31 (PDF) Horseshoe Crabs
- Chapter 32 (PDF) Eels and Elvers
- Chapter 34 (PDF) Groundfish
- Chapter 36 (PDF) Herring
- Chapter 37 (PDF) Freshwater Fish Regulations
- Chapter 39 (PDF) Sturgeon
- Chapter 40 (PDF) Smelts
- Chapter 41 (PDF) Menhaden
- Chapter 42 (PDF) Striped Bass
- Chapter 43 (PDF) Bluefish
- Chapter 44 (PDF) American Shad
- Chapter 45 (PDF) Shrimp
- Chapter 49 (PDF) Shellfish Bait Regulations
- Chapter 50 (PDF) Spiny Dogfish and Coastal Sharks
- Chapter 51 (PDF) Black Sea Bass
- Chapter 52 (PDF) Atlantic Mackerel
- Chapter 55 (PDF) Gear Restrictions
- Chapter 60 (PDF) Resource Management Plan
- Lower Kennebec River Anadromous Fish Restoration Plan and Inland Fisheries Management Overview: Cover Page (1.4 MB) (PDF)
- Strategic Plan and Operational Plan for the Restoration of Shad and Alewives to the Kennebec River Above Augusta: Foreword (3.7 MB) (PDF)
- The Strategic Plan for the Restoration of Shad and Alewives to the Kennebec River Above Augusta (27.9 MB) (PDF)
- Operational Plan for the Restoration of Shad and Alewives to the Kennebec River (34.0 MB) (PDF)
- Atlantic Salmon Management in the Kennebec River (20.6 MB) (PDF)
- Appendix A: Summary of Water Quality in the Kennebec River Basin (7.3 MB) (PDF)
- Appendix B: Lower Kennebec River Inland Fisheries Management Overview (15.6 MB) (PDF)
- Appendix I: Kennebec River Brown Trout Management Plan (4.2 MB) (PDF)
- Sandy River Brown Trout Management Plan (1.6 MB) (PDF)
- Amendment One to the Saco River Strategic Plan for Fisheries Management (5.6 MB) (PDF)
- Chapter 65 (PDF) Burnt Island, Living Lighthouse and facilities
- Chapter 70 (PDF) Cable Area Prohibitions
- Chapter 75 (PDF) Protected Resources
- Chapter 80 (PDF) Commercial Pelagic and Anadromous Fishing License
- Chapter 85 (PDF) Saltwater Fishing Registry
- Chapter 90 (PDF) Conservation Areas
- Chapter 91 (PDF) Spat Collection
- Chapter 94 (PDF) Sanitary Control of Molluscan Shellfish
- Chapter 95 Closed Areas - Pollution
- Chapter 96 Closed Areas - Marine Biotoxins
- Chapter 105 (PDF) Safety Regulations
- Chapter 110 (PDF) Marine Harvesting Demonstration License
- Chapter 115 (PDF) Vibrio Control Plan
