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• Smallmouth Bass

  Due to their hard-fighting abilities, smallmouths are considered by many to be superior gamefish to largemouths.

• Hybrid Sunfish

  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.

• Collections

• Black Crappie

  Also called “calico bass,” crappie grow quickly and are a popular food and sport fish.

• Largemouth Bass

  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.

• Blackspotted Stickleback

  Rarity and difficulty with identification cause the blackspotted stickleback’s whereabouts in Connecticut to be unclear.

• Ground Water

  Information on ground water, water quality, aquifers, and water conservation.

• Protecting Connecticut's Groundwater

  Protecting Connecticut's Groundwater - A Guide for Local Officials was written in 1997 by Robert Hust and James Murphy of the Department of Environmental Protection's Water Bureau. The Guide provides the tools needed to understand groundwater protection and to communicate its importance to other local officials and citizens.

• School Recycling and Organics Management

  All schools in Connecticut are required by state law to recycle mandated items.

• Outline of Aquifer Protection Regulations

  Summary of Connecticut General Statutes Section 22a-354i-1 through 10. (Revised February, 2004)

• Statutes and Regulations

  Aquifer Protection Area Program statutes and regulations were developed to create a protection program for our aquifer resources supporting high yield public supply well fields.

• System Installation

  How to install your marine toilet.

• Reporting Boating Accidents

  All operators of vessels involved in an accident in Connecticut must remain at the scene and assist any other vessel or person involved in the accident if it is possible to do so without endangering their own vessel or the people aboard. The operator must also give his/her name, address and vessel identification number to the other boat operator(s) or owner of the damaged property.

• Grant Programs

  Boating related Grant Program information

• Paddlers Etiquette

  There are many boaters on our waterways and as the number of paddlers increases, there is competition for space in limited access points and crowded waterways.