The Norwalk Shellfish Commission was established February 9, 1971 by local ordinance passed pursuant to enabling legislation previously passed by the State of Connecticut. That ordinance is in the Norwalk Code as article 111 of Chapter 45 (sec 45-26). The primary purpose of the commission is protection of public health, as an arm of the Health Department, by regulation and inspection of the harvesting of shellfish from the waters under our jurisdiction. The Commission was given charge of all the shellfisheries and shellfish grounds in Norwalk designated as natural beds in the Superior Court order of December 12, 1882, not leased to others, and not controlled by the State Shellfish Commission (since succeeded by the Aquaculture Bureau of the State Department of Agriculture).
