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(e) For-hire vessels. Authorizes the named individual or corporation's vessel to carry paying customers for purposes of fishing. Individuals or corporations shall obtain a for-hire permit based on the number of paying customers aboard.

1. Head Boat. Issued to vessels carrying seven or more paying customers.
2. Charter Boat. Issued to vessels carrying three to six paying customers.
3. Guide Boat. Issued to vessels carrying up to two paying customers.


The definition of “fish” and “to fish” as found in c. 130 would require dive charters to have a for-hire permit when paying customers want to harvest any marine animal life.

“Fish”, any animal life inhabiting the ocean or its connecting waters including any crustacean or marine fish, whether free swimming or free moving, and any shellfish or sea worms, whether or not imbedded in the soil. All provisions of the chapter relative to fish shall, so far as apt, apply also to lobster meat and crab meat after the same has been taken from the shell.

The verb, “to fish”, in all of its moods and tenses, to take or to attempt to take fish by any method or means, whether or not such method or means results in their capture.