Fishing
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Lake and Large River Electrofishing Survey
Learn about how we use electrofishing to monitor our warmwater fish populations!
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CARE classes have been temporarily cancelled to help prevent community spread of COVID-19.
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1999 Lobster Mortality Information Report
Information on the 1999 Lobster Mortalities in Long Island Sound.
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CT CARES Act Assistance to Fisheries Participants
Information about CT CARES Act Assistance to Fisheries Participants.
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A newly discovered invasive species, the knobfin sculpin has had a devastating impact on the Pomperaug River ecosystem.
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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.
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Kokanee prefer relatively clear lakes with cold, well-oxygenated water.
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The longnose dace has a hydrodynamic body similar to a miniature sturgeon that helps it hold near the bottom in fast water.
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Apparently during Colonial times, “hogchokers” fed to pigs proved difficult to swallow.
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Both marine and freshwater killifishes are distributed throughout Central and Eastern North America from southern Canada to the Yucatan, including Cuba and Bermuda.
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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.
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Learn more about this primitive family of fishes that have a sucking disc in place of a jaw.
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Also known as “tidewater” silverside. They are less common than and very difficult to distinguish from the Atlantic silverside without magnification.
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The state's only parasitic fish to enter freshwater, the sea lamprey gets a bad reputation. Learn more about this fascinating fish.
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Due to their hard-fighting abilities, smallmouths are considered by many to be superior gamefish to largemouths.