Title XVIII, Fish and Game

Any person who negligently or accidentally causes death, injury, or damage to domestic animals through the discharge of a firearm or bow and arrow shall immediately report the death, injury, or damage to the local police department, and in the case of injury to such domestic anim…

Upon application of any person interested in the cutting or harvesting of ice for domestic or commercial purposes in any of the public ponds, rivers or lakes, the executive director may, upon hearing, close to ice fishing, for such period of time as he may order, the whole or a p…

The executive director shall give notice of such hearing by posting notice thereof, stating the time and place of such hearing and the purpose thereof, at least 5 days before the date thereof, in at least 3 public places in the town or towns where such waters are located.

The expense of separating, by suitable marks, monuments or boundaries, the area on which ice is to be harvested shall be borne by the petitioner.

No foreign corporation, association, club or similar organization shall hold or acquire property in New Hampshire for the purpose of hunting, fishing, sporting or recreation, without first becoming incorporated in this state. Before becoming incorporated in this state, the purpos…

The superior court shall have power by injunction or other appropriate process to restrain any corporation, association, club or other similar organization, and any member, servant or agent thereof, from occupying, using or enjoining any property held or acquired in this state in…

Nothing in this title shall repeal any special laws of the state relating only to the Blue Mountain Forest Association.

I. Any person who violates a provision of this chapter, or any rule or regulation of the executive director, shall be guilty of a violation, except where otherwise provided, and an additional violation for each fish, bird or animal, or part thereof bought, sold, offered for sale …

Any person who shall refuse or neglect to stop when signalled to stop by any conservation officer who is in uniform or who refuses on demand of such officer to produce his fish and game license or to permit such officer to take the license or certificate in hand for the purpose o…

If any person shall carry away or collect for the purpose of carrying away any seaweed or rockweed from the seashore below high-water mark, between daylight in the evening and daylight in the morning, he shall be guilty of a violation.

If any person shall collect or carry away from any salt marsh or flats any flats-weed or any seaweed thrown thereon by the sea or tide, without leave of the owner of the marsh or flats, he shall be guilty of a violation.

No person may have in his possession at one time more wildlife than he may lawfully take in 2 days, unless otherwise provided in this title.

If any person shall pile below high-water mark, for the purpose of hauling it away, any seaweed or rockweed shall be guilty of a violation.

If any person shall carry away or collect any seaweed, rockweed, or sea moss from the banks or shores of this state for sale outside the state, or for sale within the state for the purpose of its being carried outside the state, or shall sell any such seaweed, rockweed, or sea mo…

If any person shall pull or take any growing rockweed or sea moss from the rocks, banks or shores of this state, except by cutting same with a knife so as not to detach or injure its roots, he shall be guilty of a violation.

If any person shall cut or take any growing rockweed or sea moss from the rocks, banks or shores of this state below high-water mark, above the amount of 3 bushels in any one day, allowed only in the case of a resident or summer resident of this state, he shall be guilty of a vio…

Fish and game conservation officers, as well as all state and local police officers, in addition to their other powers and duties, shall enforce all laws relative to the collecting, carrying away, uprooting, cutting, taking, piling and selling of seaweed, rockweed, flats-weed, an…

I. In addition to the penalties provided for violating any of the provisions of RSA title LXII or title XVIII or any rule made under the authority thereof, any person convicted of the illegal taking or illegal possession of game animals, game birds, or fur-bearing animals, result…

I. The executive director, after consultation with the commission, shall have the authority to open and close the seasons for the taking of small game and game birds as defined in RSA 207:1, XXVI and XI, except those birds protected under RSA 209:4, to fix the number and sex limi…

I. No person shall purposely obstruct or impede the participation of any individual in the lawful activity of hunting, fishing or trapping. No person shall purposely obstruct or impede the participation of any individual in the lawful activity of hunting, fishing or trapping. No …

The legislature finds it is in the best interests of the state and its citizens to regulate, protect, restore, and conserve the wildlife resources of the state under a uniform scheme of management through the fish and game department. It is the intent of the general court to expl…

The state of New Hampshire shall have exclusive authority and jurisdiction over the management, preservation, protection, propagation and taking of wildlife in the state. Except as otherwise specifically provided by statute, no ordinance or regulation of a political subdivision m…

No person, while hunting or obviously on his way to or from hunting, shall have a ferret in his possession, custody or control.

I. To discourage the use of lead, the fish and game department, in consultation with the department of health and human services and in partnership with the department of environmental services, the Loon Preservation Committee, the Audubon Society of New Hampshire, and the New Ha…

I. For the purposes of this subdivision, "wolf" means any canine classified as Canis lupis or Canis rufus. II. No person or state agency shall introduce wolf populations to the state of New Hampshire.

The state treasurer shall establish a separate nonlapsing account within the fish and game fund to be known as the operation game thief account to which moneys obtained by the fish and game department shall be applied, including any federal moneys which become available and all d…

I. Any person taking or attempting to take a game animal or fur-bearing animal may use a game camera to locate, surveil, aid or assist in any attempt to locate or surveil any game animal or fur-bearing animal, provided that no person shall take a game animal or fur-bearing animal…

I. No person shall take or attempt to take wild birds or wild animals from a motor vehicle, OHRV, snowmobile as defined in RSA 215-C:1, boat, aircraft or other craft propelled by mechanical power. II. No person shall have or carry, in or on a motor vehicle, OHRV, snowmobile, or a…

I. RSA 207:7 shall not apply to a disabled person who has paraplegia, has lost one or both lower extremities, or has lost the use of one or both lower extremities, and who has obtained a current license to hunt; provided, however, that such person must first obtain from the execu…

Any person who violates a provision of RSA 207:7 shall be guilty of a violation and shall be guilty of an additional violation for each wild bird or animal taken or possessed contrary to said provision.

No person shall take fish or game for wages or hire.

I. No person shall offer for sale, take, or assist in the taking of wildlife by use of remote control or Internet hunting. Any person who violates this section shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor if a natural person and guilty of a felony if any other person. In addition, th…

No person shall take game using a tranquilizer propelled from a bow, crossbow, or firearm. This shall not apply to the executive director of fish and game or the executive director's authorized agents.

I. In this section: (a) "Drug" means any chemical substance, other than food or mineral/vitamin supplements, that affects the structure or biological function of any mammal, bird, reptile, or amphibian under the jurisdiction of the fish and game department. (b) "Normal animal hus…

Fish shall be taken only by angling unless otherwise specifically permitted. If a fish is unintentionally taken contrary to the prohibitions or restrictions contained in a provision of this title, such fish shall be immediately liberated and returned to the water without unnecess…