§ 20-12-1. Cultivation of inland fish. The department of environmental management shall be empowered to introduce, protect, and cultivate fish in the inland waters of the state, and to construct, maintain, and operate fish cultivation and breeding facilities and undertake fish cultivation projects within the state as may be, in the opinion of the director, […]
§ 20-12-2. Acquisition of land for fish cultivation. For the purpose of protecting and propagating fish and providing fishing preserves, the director of environmental management may, in the name and for the use of the state, and subject to approval of the state properties committee, acquire, by gift, lease, or purchase, land, freshwater streams, lakes, […]
§ 20-12-3. Freshwater hatcheries. The department of environmental management shall establish and maintain freshwater hatcheries in this state for the purpose of providing freshwater and anadromous game fish to be used by the department in the stocking of the ponds and streams of the state. All of the output of those hatcheries not so used […]
§ 20-12-4. Fishways. For the purpose of providing for the passage of anadromous fish species to their traditional spawning grounds in freshwater, the department of environmental management is authorized and directed to construct fishways around or through existing dams in the rivers and streams of this state. The owners of those dams shall cooperate with […]
§ 20-12-5. Fishing prohibited in or near waters set aside. No person shall catch, or attempt to catch, any fish, or use any seine for catching fish, in waters acquired by the director of environmental management for fish cultivation projects, or within one half (½) mile from the mouth or outlet of any fish cultivation […]
§ 20-12-6. Obstructions to fish culture. The director of environmental management may seize, and remove summarily if need be, all obstructions erected to hinder the passage of fish or that are illegally erected to obstruct, or in any way impede, the growth and culture of fish; and every person rebuilding or continuing any obstruction after […]
§ 20-12-7. Violations as to fish cultivation projects. No person shall take any fish or fish spawn, or any apparatus used in hatching or protecting fish, from any pond, lake, river, or stream stocked with, or set apart by, the director of environmental management, by any city or town, or by private parties, without the […]
§ 20-12-8. Annual appropriations. The general assembly shall annually appropriate any sum it may deem necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this chapter. History of Section.P.L. 1981, ch. 197, § 3.
