BLAIR LEE III, Acting Governor                            1839

CHAPTER 581

(House Bill 212)

AN ACT concerning

Fishing - Gill Nets

FOR the purpose of prohibiting the use of gill nets during
certain periods in certain waters of the State;
prohibiting the use of gill nets at all times in
certain waters; and prohibiting the use of gill certain
nets of a certain size in certain waters.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Natural Resources
Section 4-710(c) and 4-7 28 (c)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1974 Volume and 1977 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article — Natural Resources

4-710.

(c) (1) A person may not fish with any net whose
size of stretched mesh, allowing a reasonable tolerance for
shrinkage, is less than the following: pound net, 1 1/2
inches; haul seine, 2 - 1/2 1 1/2 inches; gill net, 2 1/2
inches; fyke or hoop net, 2-1/4 1 1/2 inches.

(2)    IN THE CHESAPEAKE BAY AND ITS TRIBUTARIES,
A PERSON MAY      NOT SET OR FISH ANY GILL NET WHOSE SIZE OF
STRETCHED MESH,    ALLOWING A 1/4 INCH VARIABLE, IS MORE THAN 7
INCHES.

(3)    This subsection does not apply to catching
eels with a net.

4-728.

(c) (1) A person may not set an anchored gill net
in the area of Chesapeake Bay bounded on the north by a line
drawn from Turkey Point on the eastern shore to Sandy Point
in Harford County, and on the south by a line drawn from the
mouth of Fairlee Creek in Kent County to Robins Point in
Harford County. This [subsection] PARAGRAPH does not apply
to the numbered commercial fishing areas within the Aberdeen
proving grounds as specified by the proving ground.

(2) A PERSON MAY NOT SET, FISH, OR HAVE WITHIN