In MA the office of the attorney general has a brochure about this.
The MA DMF was passing it out a RISSA or MSBA a few years ago.
You can not cross private land to access fishing.
Once you are on the beach, you can fish or walk to fish anywhere below the mean high tide mark (i.e., "wet sand").
You can legally cross man made obstructions in your path (i.e., jetties and seawalls), but you can't legally stop and fish from them.
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