HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments.

Article - Natural Resources
Section 4-728(c)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1974 Volume and 1979 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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

4-728.

(b)  A person may not set any pound net or stake net in
the headwaters of the Chesapeake Bay, except those areas
within 2,400 feet from the natural shoreline in Cecil
County, the bay shore of Kent County up to Howell's Point,
and those areas within 2,400 feet from the shore on the west
side of the bay from Pooles Island north to one-half mile
north of Spesutie Island. For the purpose of this
subsection the headwaters of the Chesapeake Bay are defined
as the waters embraced in the area marked by the following
line:

Beginning at Concord Point and running in a
northeasterly direction, crossing Susquehanna River to Stump
Point, then to Carpenter's Point, then to Turkey Point, then
to Grove Point, all in Cecil County, then to Howell's Point,
Kent County, continuing in a straight line from Howell's
Point in a southwesterly direction across the bay to Abbey
Point, the northernmost point at the entrance of Bush River,
then northerly by a line following the bay shore of Harford
County to Mulberry Point, then to Bear Point, Sandy Point,
and to Locust Point on Spesutie Island, then to the
southernmost point at the entrance of Swan Creek, and then
crossing Swan Creek and continuing in a northerly direction
following the bay shore to Concord Point, the place of
beginning.

(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. ] ABBEY POINT TO CHANNEL BUOY NUMBER 37,
FOLLOWING THE CHANNEL NORTHWARD TO BUOY NUMBER 1, OFF GROVE
POINT, THENCE TO GROVE POINT. This paragraph does not apply
to the numbered commercial fishing areas within the Aberdeen
proving grounds as specified by the proving ground.] A
PERSON MAY SET ANCHORED GILL NETS IN ANY AREA IN WHICH POUND
NETS OR STAKE NETS MAY BE SET, AS SPECIFIED IN SUBSECTION
(B) OF THIS SECTION.