928                                   LAWS OF MARYLAND                               Ch. 158

Approved April 22, 1980.

CHAPTER 159

(House Bill 418)

AN ACT concerning

Legal Size of Certain Fish

FOR the purpose of providing that a person may not possess,
sell, or offer to buy or sell, summer flounder less
than 12 10 inches in total length; increasing the size
of largemouth or smallmouth bass subject to the
prohibitions of this section; deleting word "catch"
under the prohibitions relating to size of certain
fish; adding new language regarding the retention of
one striped bass over 32 inches; removing superfluous
language; and making stylistic changes.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

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Section 4-734

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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

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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 [9] 12 inches;

(2)  Butterfish less than 6 inches;

(3)  Catfish less than 8 inches;

(4)  Croakers or hardheads less than 10 inches;

(5)  Yellow perch less than 8 inches, if caught
other than by hook or line;

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