3.__Assessment of ability to evaluate success.__A realistic assessment of the ability of fisheries staff to evaluate success of the management through future surveys.

§12758.__Fish stocking

1.__Public comments.__When the Bureau of Resource Management determines that there is a need to consider changing the long- term management objectives on a water or group of waters that supports a major fishery or major fisheries, the department shall provide information regarding the proposed change to any person at that person's request.__The bureau shall conduct department- sponsored meetings to solicit public comments on those management objectives.

2.__Department-sponsored meetings.__Regional fisheries biologists must be available at department-sponsored meetings held pursuant to subsection 1 to review the management opportunities presented by the proposals to change long-term management objectives, as well as the information used to assess the opportunities, and to receive public comments concerning the proposals.

§12759. Stocking alewives

1.__Prohibition.__A person may not stock alewives in Hogan Pond or Whitney Pond in the Town of Oxford or any waters that drain into or out of those ponds.

2.__Violation.__A person who violates this section commits a civil violation for which a forfeiture of not less than $100 nor more than $500 may be adjudged.

§12760. Fishways in dams and other artificial

obstructions

1.__Commissioner's authority. In order to conserve, develop or restore anadromous or migratory fish resources, the commissioner may require a fishway to be erected, maintained, repaired or altered by the owners, lessors or other persons in control of any dam or other artificial obstruction within inland waters frequented by alewives, shad, salmon, sturgeon or other anadromous or migratory fish species.

2.__Examination of dams. The commissioner shall periodically examine all dams and other artificial obstructions to fish passage within the inland waters in order to determine whether