MARVIN MANDEL, Governor 2859
4-704.
(c) The fee for commercial license to catch fish
is:
(1) Fyke, hoop net, or pot, except eel pots. — 50
cents for each fyke or hoop net, plus 50 cents for each
[ten] 10 yards of lead or hedging used in connection with
it and $1 for any number of pots. Catfish pots licensed
under the provisions of this section may be fished in any
of the tidal waters of the State where commercial fishing
is not prohibited.
(2) Gill net. — $5 for each 100 yards or fraction
thereof.
(3) Pound net. — $10 for each net.
(4) Haul seine. — $3 for each 100 yards or fraction
thereof.
(5) Hook—and—line. — $10 for each person licensed.
Every fee shall be deposited to the credit of the
Fisheries Research and Development Fund,.
4-711.
(e) The outer end of each line of pound or net
stakes shall be larked plainly 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 or stake net shall be
displayed in black, letters, at least [two] 2 inches high,
on a white background on a stake at the outer end of the
pound or line, at a height and in a position as to be
seen readily from adjacent navigable channels. The
Secretary, after a public hearing, shall, promulgate rules
and regulations governing the lighting of pound nets.
(f) A single line of stakes, including the pound or
head and the leader or hedging, may not have a length
greater than the following:
(1) In Chesapeake Bay, south of a line from Sandy
Point to Love Point and in the Choptank River from the
mouth of the Choptank River to a line drawn from the
center of house with white roof in vicinity of Drum Point
to the easterly of two silos in the vicinity of Kate
Point—1500 feet.
(2) In Chesapeake Bay, north of a line from Sandy
Point to Love Point and south of line from the
northernmost point of Poole's Island to Morton's
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