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After receiving an email from Fish and Game, who replied the following:
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You may not use that baitfish for freshwater fishing in Massachusetts. If you want to import and sell them as saltwater baitfish, you need to contact the DIvision of Marine FIsheries for permits and guidance. I will include them in this email.
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Today I received the following email from Marine Fisheries:
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Marine Fisheries does not have any regulations that prohibit the use of this fish for bait.
Jeanne Shaw Hayes
Revenue Program Coordinator
Division of Marine Fisheries
Phone: 617.626.1531
Fax: 617.626.1509
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So it looks like they are legal as long as you do not use them in freshwater. If the baitshops don't want to carry them, I may order them direct.
If the baitshops do want to carry them, maybe they can contact this woman first, and get something on official letterhead.