1558                                               LAWS OF MARYLAND                           [Ch. 385

BY repealing and re—enacting, with amendments.

Article - Natural Resources
Section 4-734

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1974 Volume)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 4-734 of Article - Natural
Resources, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1974
Volume) be and it is hereby repealed and re—enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

Article - Natural Resources
4-734.

(A)    A person may not catch, sell, offer to buy or
sell, expose for sale, or possess any of the following
fish:

(1)  Bass, largemouth or smallmouth or black, less
than nine inches;

(2)  Butterfish less than six inches;

(3)  Catfish less than eight inches;

(4)  Croakers or hardheads less than 10 inches;

(5)  YELLOW perch[, white or yellow,] less than eight
inches, if caught other than by hook or line;

(6)  Pike or walleyed pike less than 14 inches;

(7)  Sea trout or weakfish less than nine inches;

(8)   Striped bass, less than 12 inches in length or
weighing more than 15 pounds. However, a person may
catch one striped bass over 15 pounds per day with hook
and line in the Susquehanna River above hog back shoals
and in the waters of the State at any time of the year
except from March 1 to May 27 inclusive, which may not be
sold or offered for sale.

(9)  Sturgeon weighing less than 25 pounds;

(10)  Taylor or blue fish less than eight inches.

(B)    Measurement for each fish mentioned above
shall be from the tip of the nose to the end of the tail.