Except as otherwise provided, any person who, in any one day, takes, gathers or collects more than two bushels of oysters, clams, mussels or shells, from any portion of Hammonasset River not designated for planting shellfish, shall be fined not more than two hundred fifty dollars.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 26-276
(1949 Rev., S. 5088; P.A. 12-80, S. 37.)