Protected fish in Massachusetts
You can’t keep some species of freshwater fish if you catch them. Remove the hook or cut line and return the fish to water immediately — do not pose for photographs, place on a stringer, hold in a net, or delay in any way the immediate return and release of these fish:
- Sturgeon (all species)
- American brook lamprey
- Bridle shiner
- Eastern silvery minnow
- Lake chub
- Longnose sucker
- Northern redbelly dance
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