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13 188 Marine Resources - General
- Ch. 1 (Word) Watercraft Excise Tax Decal
- Ch. 2 (PDF) Aquaculture Lease Regulations (pdf)
- Ch. 3 (Word) Foreign Fish Processing within Maine's Territorial Sea
- Ch. 4 (Word) Municipal Shellfish Conservation Warden Certification
- Ch. 5 (Word) Confidentiality of Fisheries Statistics
- Ch. 6 (Word) Lobster Processing
- Ch. 7 (Word) Requirements for Municipalities Having Shellfish Conservation Programs
- Ch. 8 (Word) Landings Program
- Ch. 9 (Word) Harvester: Shellstock Harvesting, Handling and Sanitation
- Ch. 10 (Word) Clams and Quahogs
- Ch. 11 (Word) Scallops
- Ch. 12 (Word) Mussels
- Ch. 13 (Word) Whelks and Periwinkles
- Ch. 14 (Word) Oyster Regulations
- Ch. 15 General Shellfish Sanitation Requirements (Repealed; see Ch. 94)
- Ch. 16 Uniform Physical Plant Equipment and Operation Requirements (Repealed; see Ch. 94)
- Ch. 17 Shucker-Packer (Repealed; see Ch. 94)
- Ch. 18 Shellstock Shipping (Repealed; see Ch. 94)
- Ch. 19 Reshipping (Repealed; see Ch. 94)
- Ch. 20 Depuration (Repealed; see Ch. 94)
- Ch. 21 Shellfish Relay (Repealed; see Ch. 94)
- Ch. 22 (Word) Retail Shellfish
- Ch. 23 Standards for Closure of Contaminated or Polluted Flats (Repealed; see Ch. 94)
- Ch. 24 (Word) Importation of Live Marine Organisms
- Ch. 25 (Word) Lobster and Crab Appendices taken from the "Interstate Fishery Management Plan for American Lobster," in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format:
- Ch. 26 (Word) Sea Urchins
- Ch. 27 (Word) Sea Cucumbers
- Ch. 28 (Word) Marine Worms
- Ch. 29 (Word) Seaweed
- Ch. 30 (Word) River Herring
- Ch. 31 (Word) Horseshoe Crabs
- Ch. 32 (Word) Eel Regulations
- Ch. 34 (Word) Groundfish Regulations
- Ch. 36 (Word) Atlantic Herring
- Ch. 37 (Word) Freshwater Fish Regulations
- Ch. 39 (Word) Sturgeon
- Ch. 40 (Word) Smelt Regulations
- Ch. 41 (Word) Menhaden
- Ch. 42 (Word) Striped Bass
- Ch. 43 (Word) Bluefish
- Ch. 44 (Word) American Shad
- Ch. 45 (Word) Shrimp
- Ch. 49 (Word) Shellfish Bait Permit
- Ch. 50 (Word) Spiny Dogfish and Coastal Sharks
- Ch. 51 (Word) Black Sea Bass
- Ch. 52 (Word) Atlantic Mackerel
- Ch. 55 (Word) Gear Restrictions
- Ch. 60 (Word) Resource Management Plan
(The following items, incorporated by reference, are in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format.)
- Lower Kennebec River Anadromous Fish Restoration Plan and Inland Fisheries Management Overview: Cover Page (PDF)
- Strategic Plan and Operational Plan for the Restoration of Shad and Alewives to the Kennebec River Above Augusta: Foreword (PDF)
- The Strategic Plan for the Restoration of Shad and Alewives to the Kennebec River Above Augusta (PDF)
- Operational Plan for the Restoration of Shad and Alewives to the Kennebec River (PDF)
- Atlantic Salmon Management in the Kennebec River (PDF)
- Appendix A (PDF): Summary of Water Quality in the Kennebec River Basin
- Appendix B (PDF): Lower Kennebec River Inland Fisheries Management Overview
- Appendix I (PDF): Kennebec River Brown Trout Management Plan
- Sandy River Brown Trout Management Plan (PDF)
- Amendment One (PDF) to the Saco River Strategic Plan for Fisheries Management
- Ch. 65 (Word) Burnt Island, Living Lighthouse and Facilities
- Ch. 70 (Word) Cable Area Prohibitions
- Ch. 75 (Word) Protected Resources
- Ch. 80 (Word) Commercial Pelagic and Anadromous Fishing License
- Ch. 85 (Word) Saltwater Fishing Registry
- Ch. 90 (Word) Conservation Areas
- Ch. 91 (Word) Spat Collection
- Ch. 94 (Word) Sanitary Control of Molluscan Shellfish
Shellfish Closures: refer to the Department of Marine Resources site
- Ch. 95 Closed Areas - Due to Pollution
- Ch. 96 Closed Areas - Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning
- Ch. 105 (Word) Safety Regulations
- Ch. 110 (Word) Marine Harvesting Demonstration License
- Ch. 115 (Word) Vibrio parahaemolyticus Control Plan