Guess I should read more carefully.

As long as I have a Charter/Party Boat license this registration is not needed.

"(b) The provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall not apply to any user, operator or crew of any vessel registered as a charter boat, party boat or head boat in accordance with the provisions of section 26-142a of the general statutes."


What people should take away from this is, if they offer to go on someone else's boat as a GUIDE then they need this registration!

Lastly, this makes no sense........"(c) Any person who provides fishing guide services that entail the use of a vessel while taking or landing marine species shall not have more than two customers in such vessel at any given time." What I mean, is if Joe Noname who owns a 50' sportfish hires me to run his boat as a Captain/Guide then he can only have 2 passengers??????? Who makes this crap up??????????????