Massachusetts Fishing Regulations
Are you familiar with the fishing regulation in Massachusetts?
It is never a bad idea to check it again before your next outing.
Massachusetts Fishing License
Purchasing a fishing license you are helping to preserve the environment and also ensure that future generations can enjoy fishing as you are.
Among other things, your fishing license fees support fisheries and hatcheries management, education programs about fishing and conservation, protection of endangered species.
Here it is where you can get your fishing license.
Links to Massachusetts Government Agencies
Here are a few websites of Massachusetts's agencies involved in regulation and conservation.
Massachusetts Fishing News
Check out what is the latest fishing buzz in Massachusetts.
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Fishermen's group hosts fire safety program
- The Massachusetts Fishermen’s Partnership will be conducting free safety and survival training for commercial fishermen on Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the U.S. Coast Guard Station Gloucester, 17 Harbor Loop. The day-long training is conducted ...
- Gloucester Daily Times
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- 5/16/2013 3:54:00 AM
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Gov. gets deaf ear from White House on fisheries
- Valerie Jarrett, a senior advisor to President Obama, has declined to explain why the White House turned a deaf ear to the pleas of Gov. Deval Patrick for relief from what Patrick told her were “impending drastic cuts” in landings allowed the ...
- Gloucester Daily Times
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- 5/13/2013 3:57:34 AM
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Vt. Fish & Wildlife renames Elmore fishing access
- ELMORE, Vt. (AP) — A fishing access area on Vermont’s Lake Elmore is getting a new name. The Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife says the Lake Elmore Access area will be renamed The Lake Elmore—Vaughn M. Douglass Access Area.
- Boston.com
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- 5/10/2013 11:56:33 PM
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Maine restaurants feature underutilized fish
- PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Acadian redfish is being featured at Maine restaurants and retailers for the next 10 days as part of an initiative to promote underutilized seafood species in the Gulf of Maine. Sixteen restaurants from Ogunquit to Bar ...
- Boston.com
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- 5/9/2013 11:57:45 PM
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Drop fish timelines, coalition chief argues
- Writing as an individual, the executive director of the Gloucester-based Northeast Seafood Coalition argued to a nation’s capital gathering Wednesday that the next rewrite of the Magnuson-Stevens Act should abandon the 1996 mandate to put weakened stocks .
- Gloucester Daily Times
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- 5/9/2013 4:02:19 AM
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Maine woman seeks to keep prohibited exotic fish
- AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A Maine woman says she should be able to keep her exotic pet fish in her home’s indoor pond even though the state prohibits them. Georgette Curran of Harpswell told a judge Wednesday that Maine is the only state that ...
- Boston.com
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- 5/8/2013 11:58:56 PM
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Fish & Game asks public to report turkey sightings
- CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire Fish and Game officials are asking for the public’s help in counting broods of turkeys sighted between mid-May and the end of August. A brood is a family of young turkeys plus the mother hen. Biologist Ted ...
- Boston.com
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- 5/8/2013 11:58:56 PM
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Fish panels all back Magnuson flexibility
- The positioning of the councils on what has become a climactic issue with Magnuson, the overarching federal law guiding NOAA’s administration of America’s fisheries, was easy to overlook in the opening of the three-day Managing our Nation’s Fisheries ...
- Gloucester Daily Times
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- 5/8/2013 3:56:20 AM
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NH Fish and Game talk addresses bats, dragonflies
- CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department is holding a talk on statewide efforts to document dragonflies and protect bats. Biologists will discuss steps being taken to prevent the white nose syndrome infection in bats.
- Boston.com
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- 5/7/2013 11:52:57 PM
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Camp Stanica in Palmer plans fishing derby, open house for summer camp
- PALMER – Council 62 of the Polish National Alliance will hold its annual fishing derby and open house at Camp Stanica ... Brown’s Pond-Crystal Lake is where swimming is enjoyed during the children’s camping season, and the Swift River runs through ...
- Union-News & Sunday Republican
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- 5/6/2013 5:27:36 PM
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Three Lantern steps into fishing void
- For most of its 30-year existence, Winchester Fishing Co. on lower Washington Street was the one-stop shop for fishing and lobster gear. But Dick Winchester sold the property a year ago and has retired, closing his doors for the last time last month. Fear
- Gloucester Daily Times
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- 5/4/2013 3:53:55 AM
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NOAA report ignores 'disaster'
- ... intense scrutiny by Congress last year in the wake of revelations that NOAA had made unauthorized shifts of $43.8 million, according to an internal investigation, from weather forecasting to bonuses and extensions to contractors, outlined in a report .
- Gloucester Daily Times
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- 5/3/2013 3:55:07 AM
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NOAA sticks to cuts in fish limits
- The Northeast groundfishing industry faced the music Tuesday — and it was a dirge. NOAA Regional Administrator John Bullard informed members of Congress Tuesday that he was filing in the Federal Register catch limits and the overall fishing regime for ...
- Gloucester Daily Times
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- 5/1/2013 3:57:29 AM
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NOAA's Bullard confirms 78 percent cod limit cut as new year dawns
- When fishing industry leaders, fishermen, and Massachusetts political leaders rallied Monday on the Boston Fish Pier, all expressed the hope that their 11th-hour push would convince NOAA Northeast Administrator John Bullard and federal Commerce officials .
- Gloucester Daily Times
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- 4/30/2013 7:36:24 PM
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NOAA sticks with steep cuts in fishing
- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration notified Congress Tuesday that it is moving forward with cutbacks in fishing catch limits planned for Wednesday. NOAA said that it intended to file the catch limits for the 2013-2015 fishing ...
- Boston.com
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- 4/29/2013 11:55:17 PM
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Big cuts in NE fish catch officially released
- BOSTON (AP) — Federal regulators have officially released new rules for the 2013 fishing year in New England that implement broad cuts in catch limits on key fish stocks. The reductions became official Tuesday, a day after fishermen rallied at ...
- Boston.com
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- 4/29/2013 11:55:17 PM
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Fishing panel eyes fed stamp for seafood
- The New England Fishery Management Council, NOAA’s grassroots policy writing and advisory arm, is urging the U.S. Commerce Department to create a sustainability certification system with federal oversight for seafood caught by American boats from U.S ...
- Gloucester Daily Times
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- 4/29/2013 3:59:51 AM
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Governor takes fishery case to White House
- the council itself and the Northeast Seafood Coalition, the largest groundfishing industry organization — he would not raise the ceiling on in shore cod fishing out of his sense of stewardship to the resource. And he has consistently noted that ...
- Gloucester Daily Times
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- 4/29/2013 3:59:51 AM
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Power company proposes fishing pier in Vt. town
- ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. (AP) — A planning commission in St. Johnsbury, Vt., has approved a power company’s proposal to build a fishing pier. Planners have recommended a review of Green Mountain Power’s offer. The Caledonian-Record reports (http ...
- Boston.com
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- 4/28/2013 11:56:28 PM
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Alewife fish run through former site of Hopewell Mills Dam in Taunton
- The river herring are running through the former site of the Hopewell Mills Dam, according to the Nature Conservancy. Over the last nearly two centuries, dams in the river clogged up the waterway, impeded migration and made the area uninhabitable for the .
- Taunton Gazette
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- 4/28/2013 9:18:59 PM
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Vt. walleye fishing season starts May 4
- MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife says walleye fishing season is getting ready to start in much of the state. The walleye season on most Vermont waters begins May 4 and will last through March 15, 2014. In all ...
- Boston.com
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- 4/27/2013 11:57:39 PM
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35 tons of fishing gear cleared from NH beaches
- RYE, N.H. (AP) — Nearly 35 tons of lobster traps and fishing gear have been cleared from New Hampshire beaches. More than 75 fishermen were joined by a dozen volunteers Saturday to clean up fishing gear from beaches in Rye and Hampton. New ...
- Boston.com
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- 4/27/2013 11:57:39 PM
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Fishing groups set to rally in Boston
- With fishermen in Gloucester and elsewhere in New England staring at extreme and nearly across-the-board federally mandated cuts in landings of groundfish, the Northeast Seafood Coalition, the region’s largest industry group, is leading a major rally for .
- Gloucester Daily Times
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- 4/27/2013 3:55:04 AM
Massachusetts Guides/Outfitters
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Massachusetts Fishing Clubs
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Look up the following list of fishing clubs in Massachusetts.
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