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Telephone _____________________________________ apply for a Farm Fish Pond License covering pond located in the Town of _______________________________________ County of _________________________________________. |
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PLEASE SUPPLY A MAP WITH TOWN,
NEAREST CROSS ROADS AND LOCATION OF POND MARKED. |
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Do you (own, lease) the land on which the pond is constructed? _________ |
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Is the pond for which the application is being made used in connection with a private camp, boarding house, hotel or other establishment catering to the public?_________ |
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What is the approximate size (surface acreage) of the pond?____________________ |
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Is this pond entirely
artificial, impounded by a man-made dam? __________________ |
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Is this pond fed by a stream
which has its source outside land on which pond is located?___________ If so, explain:_________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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Is this pond fed by springs, surface water, or both? __________________________________________ |
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To what stream course of other water does your pond drain? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Please state name of stream into which your pond finally drains, even though it may leave the pond through a field drain. For example, “Field drains into unnamed creek, then into Owego Creek. “ |
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What species of fish do you
want to stock? (Note: Triploid grass carp are not covered under this license. They require a separate permit.) _______________________________________________________________________ |
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Where do you plan to secure stock? ________________________________________________________________________ |
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Has pond been stocked
previously? _______ If so, what species does it contain?__________________________________________________________________ |
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Specify any means you may wish to use to remove fish from your pond other than angling. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
Date: _________________20_______ Signature of applicant:____________________________________________________ |
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FOR LAW, SEE NEXT PAGE. RETURN TO: BUREAU OF FISHERIES, 6274 EAST AVON-LIMA ROAD, AVON, NY 14414-9519 |
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PROVISIONS OF SECTION 11-1911 OF THE FISH AND WILDLIFE LAW ARE AS FOLLOWS: |
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| 1. | "FARM FISH PONDS. Farm fish pond means a body of water, impounded by a dam, of not more than ten acres of water surface when full, lying wholly within the boundaries of privately owned or leased lands. it does not include any pond used in connection with any private camp, boarding house, hotel or other establishment catering to the public. |
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| 2. | The Department may issue to the owner or lessee of a farm fish pond a license, effective for a period of five years, entitling the holder to stock and manage such fish pond for the production of fish. The Department shall fix the terms of each such license and may include therein the methods of control to be used and the manner of taking and type, size and mesh of gear to be used in taking fish. The Department may, for cause, revoke or suspend any license issued pursuant to this section. | |
| 3. | No person shall release any species of fish into a farm fish pond, unless permission to do so is first obtained from the Department. | |
| 4. | A licensee, any member of his immediate family, and any person actually employed by him in the cultivation of his farm or the management of the licensed pond, may, without license issued under Title 7 of the Fish and Wildlife Law, take fish of any size, in any number, at any time, in any manner permitted by the Department. | |
| 5. | The holder of a fishing, six-day fishing or combined hunting and fishing license, or a person entitled to exercise the privileges of such a license, may, with the permission of the licensee, take fish by angling from a licensed pond, provided he/she complied with the provisions of Title 13 of the Fish and Wildlife Law, with respect to open seasons, minimum size limits and daily and seasonal possession limits. | |
| 6. | a) | Fish protected by law, except trout, black bass, muskellunge and landlocked salmon, legally taken from a licensed farm fish pond, may be bought and sold during their respective open season, and may be possessed and transported at any time. Trout, black bass, muskellunge and landlocked salmon, legally taken from a licensed farm fish pond, may be bought and sold during their respective open season, and may be possessed and transported during their respective open seasons and until March 1 immediately following, but unless such fish were taken by a person described in subdivision 4, or are frozen or otherwise processed and packaged for storage and are being transported to a place of storage or consumption, no person shall transport in any one day a quantity of such fish exceeding the quantity which may be legally taken from that farm fish pond by a person described in subdivision 5. |
| b) | Fish protected by law shall not be removed from the premises of the licensee unless such fish or the package containing them bears the name and address of the licensee and his license number and the name and address of the person in whose possession they are. | |
| c) | Fish not protected by law, legally taken from a licensed farm fish pond, may be possessed, transported, bought and sold at any time, except that taking and sale of bait fish shall be permitted only under license pursuant to section 11-1315." | |