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Any vessel carrying for-hire patrons must abide by all recreational regulations. For-hire patrons cannot be designated as the vessel’s “crew” in order to claim the vessel is conducting a commercial trip. Accordingly, a dually-permitted vessel (holding both a for-hire permit and commercial boat permit with a striped bass endorsement) on a for-hire trip is limited to the amount of striped bass that corresponds to the number of persons times the recreational bag limit. All fish must meet the recreational size limit. At the end of trip, should any passengers not want to keep the recreational bag limit, the remaining striped bass – provided all commercial rules are met – could be sold by the permit holder to an authorized primary buyer.

In prior years, a for-hire vessel with a commercial permit and striped bass endorsement could take a for-hire trip and fish under the commercial rules for striped bass. The vessel could take the commercial limit (30 fish in prior years), patrons could leave with up to two fish each, and the for-hire captain could sell the remaining fish.


http://www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/dfg...iped-bass.html