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§ 109. Repealed. 2017 Fish and Wildlife Reg., eff. January 1, 2018.

§ 114a. Rule defining mouths of tributaries and lines between points to identify the Vermont portion of Lake Champlain 1.0 Authority. This rule is promulgated pursuant to 10 V.S.A. § 4609. This rule defines the Vermont portion of Lake Champlain, for reciprocal license purposes, e…

§ 115. Use of state controlled fishing access areas 1.0 Authority1.1 This rule is adopted pursuant to 10 V.S.A. § 4145(a) which authorizes the board to make rules to “regulate the use by the public of access areas, landing areas, parking areas or of other lands or waters acquired…

§ 116. Atlantic salmon management in Connecticut River (a) Definitions. (1) “Angling” means fishing with hook and line which must be personally attended. (2) “Fly fishing” means angling with the use of a single fly with either a single or double (side by side) hook, whose gape ma…

§ 117. Fish propagation (1) Purpose. The purpose of this regulation is to carry out the mandate of the Vermont General Assembly to control, through a permit program, the propagation of fish, 10 V.S.A. chapter 119, §§ 5207-5209. In addition, a Memorandum of Understanding of the op…

§ 118. Repealed by order of the commissioner.

§ 119. Filleting fish No species of fish that has a length limit restriction shall be filleted or altered to restrict the determination of length while on any body of water, except as follows: If fish are to be consumed or filleted on the water, the fillets may be removed, but th…

§ 120. Special regulations—Noyes Pond 1. Fishing in Noyes Pond shall be by fly fishing only. (Flies shall be artificial only.) 2. The flies shall be single hook only, and must be either barbless or the barb filed or crimped down. 3. Fishing from the shore of Noyes Pond and its tr…

§ 121. Rule establishing a list for prohibited, restricted and unrestricted fish species 1.0 Authority. 1.1 This rule is adopted pursuant to 10 V.S.A § 4081(a) which provides that the protection, propagation, control, management, and conservation of fish, wildlife, and furbearing…

§ 122. Fish Management Regulation [Effective until January 1, 2026] 1.0 Authority (a) This rule is adopted pursuant to 10 V.S.A. § 4081(b). In adopting this rule, the Fish and Wildlife Board is following the policy established by the General Assembly that the protection, propagat…

§ 123. Commercial Angling Rule [Effective January 1, 2026] 1.0 Authority. 1.1 This rule is adopted pursuant to 10 V.S.A. § 4083 and 10 V.S.A. § 4611. This rule implements the policy established by the General Assembly that the protection, propagation, control, management, and con…

§ 124. Valley Brook—Spawning waters [Repealed effective January 1, 2026] (Added 1986, Fish and Wildlife Commissioner’s Reg. No. —, eff. Oct. 1, 1986; repealed 2025, Fish and Wildlife Commissioner’s Reg., eff Jan 1, 2026.)

§ 134. Repealed. 1995, Fish and Wildlife Commissioner’s Reg. No. 986.

§ 137. Fishing tournaments (A) The permit for a fishing tournament as required by 10 V.S.A. § 4613 shall be applied for no less than 30 days before the date of the tournament. The following information will be supplied to the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department: Name of Organiza…

§ 138. Hatchery Brook closure That portion of the so-called Hatchery Brook, located in the Town of Grand Isle to the south of the fish hatchery buildings, from the mouth of the brook at Gordon’s Landing, Lake Champlain, upstream approximately 1,150 feet to the main hatchery drive…

§ 139. Fish importation 1.0 Authority 1.1 This rule is adopted pursuant to 10 V.S.A §§ 4081(a), 4082, 4083 and 4605 which authorize the board to carry out the purposes of protecting the state’s fish and the waters of this state. 2.0 Purpose: 2.1 It is the purpose of this regulati…

§ 140. Commissioner’s Rule Private Stocking of Fish in Public and Private Waters 1.0 Authority. 1.1 Title 10 V.S.A. § 4081(a) provides that the protection, propagation, control, management, and conservation of fish, wildlife, and furbearing animals in Vermont is in the interest o…

§ 141. Baitfish Rule [Effective until January 1, 2026] 1.0 Authority. This rule is adopted pursuant to 10 V.S.A. §4081(b). In adopting this rule, the Fish and Wildlife Board is implementing the policy that the protection, propagation, control, management, and conservation of fish…