Specialist - that pi$$es me off too. Last year one fellow got nabbed a couple times as each member of his family had a permit (including the dog) but were "unavailable" when the DEP fellow was around, but yeh, that happens all too often there. Not even a slap on the wrist, dump the herring (half of 'em are already dead) and a fine... There are also some low-lifes in there at times and if you made a stink there liable to toss you off the falls... I don't mind it too much when someone squirles away a few fish for the table to feed his family because he really need too but that was pure greed. If you ever need to drop a dime on something that bad, the Environmental police are at 800-632-8075...
Best thing you can do is to be sure that the water has a mix of what they are in (any marine bios want to jump in here? :P ). If I'm not going to fish them right away what I "like" to do when I can is to put some saltwater (like half) in the tank and fill the rest with the water they came from (sure, your truck'll stink a little with Charles River water but...). That appeared to help in the transition for them...
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