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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