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cove, river, inlet or sound emptying into the said dividing river and lying
wholly within a county other than the one of which he is a resident or
land owner, except as provided for in Section 21, sub-title "Riparian
Rights, " except that a non-resident of one county may fish in the waters
within the jurisdictional limits of another county after having first ob-
tained the written permission of the abutting land-owner and providing
further that the provisions of this section shall not apply to the catching
of eels.

1929, ch. 471, sec. 26.

25. Method of Fishing. It shall not be lawful to take or catch fish for
commercial purposes in the tidal waters of this State by the use of a drag
net or drag¹ seine, hauled by boat (purse and buck net excepted), beam
trawl, trammel net or troll net, or any similar destructive device.

1929, ch. 471, sec. 27.

26. Regulation of Nets and Seines. Unless otherwise provided, it shall
be unlawful to set, place, construct or use any net of any description except
purse or buck net and floating gill nets, in the waters of this State at a
distance greater than one-third the distance across the waters of any bay,
sound, river, creek, cove or inlet where such net may be set or used; nor
shall any pound or stake nets be closer to another than 400 yards in a
parallel line. Nor shall any single line of fish net stakes, including the
pound or head and leader or hedging have a length greater than 1, 000
feet and between successive pounds or gill nets in the same row, clear and
unobstructed intervals of at least 200 feet shall be maintained; nor shall
any stake project out of the water less than 2 feet above the surface of the
water at all stations of the tide. The outer end of each pound net shall be
plainly marked by a brush or other suitable day marker, readily discernible
to indicate the opening between nets. The name of the owner and the license
number of each pound net shall be displayed in black letters not less than
2 inches in height upon a white background on a stake at the outer end
of the pound, at such height and in such position that it may be readily
seen from adjacent navigable channels; nor to set, place or construct any
pound nets or other staked nets or to haul seine in or upon the waters cov-
ering leased oyster ground without the permission of the lessee of such
ground.

1929, ch. 471, sec. 28.

27. Purse or Buck Nets. Purse or buck nets may be used only in the
waters of the Chesapeake Bay south of a line drawn east from Robins'
Point on the Western Shore to Handy's Point on the Eastern Shore and
not within one mile of 1he shores of Harford County exclusive of Poole's
Island, and then only for the purpose of catching fish for food purposes,
and from July 15th to October 31st, both inclusive, of each year. For the
purpose of this Article and for defining the mouth of the Great Choptank
River and the mouth of Eastern Bay, both of which are tributaries of the
Chesapeake Bay within the meaning of this Article, a straight line drawn