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The northern pike is Connecticut’s largest strictly freshwater gamefish.
Reducing Your Personal Transportation Emissions
The majority of transportation energy consumed comes from passenger cars and light trucks. Therefore, reducing your personal transportation emissions can have large impacts on total transportation emissions in Connecticut.
In Connecticut, the redbreast sunfish typically outnumbers other sunfish species only in river environments.
Climate Action Timeline for Connecticut
A historical look back at climate action in CT
In Connecticut, residential buildings account for thirty- three percent of total energy consumption. The majority of energy consumption is associated with space heating and cooling, appliances and lighting, and water heating and refrigeration.
New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers (NEG/ECP)
Eleven states and provinces within the New England Governor’s and Eastern Canadian Premiers (NEG/ECP) region have jointly produced a Regional Climate Change Action Plan.
Due to their hard-fighting abilities, smallmouths are considered by many to be superior gamefish to largemouths.
Hybrids are more common in unfished or lightly fished waters, most likely because they are easier to catch than the parent species and are thus removed more quickly from heavily fished waters.
Also called “calico bass,” crappie grow quickly and are a popular food and sport fish.
The most popular gamefish in the country, the largemouth bass is also the principal predator in most of our state’s lakes and ponds and thus plays a key role in the health of aquatic ecosystems.
Boating Infrastructure Grant Program
Boating Infrastructure Grant Program funds are available to public and private agencies and marinas and other facilities that provide transient tie-up opportunities for non-trailerable (26' or over in length) recreational boats.
Rarity and difficulty with identification cause the blackspotted stickleback’s whereabouts in Connecticut to be unclear.