1946

LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 481

running from the most southerly point of Holland Island to
Holland Island Bar light; all waters east of a line running
from Richland Point to Okahanikan Point; AND any areas
reserved by the [department] DEPARTMENT for production of
seed oysters.

4-1038.

(a) Except as provided in § 4-1039 OF THIS SUBTITLE, a
person may not catch soft-shell clams by hydraulic clam
dredge in the following waters:

(1) Anne Arundel County.

(i) [within] WITHIN 500 feet of any sea
nettle net;

(ii) Within 800 feet of any public bathing
beach between Saunders and Dutchman's Point, if the beach is
marked as required by rule or regulation and the public uses
the beach for bathing;

(iii) In Marley Creek; Stoney Creek;
Bodkin Creek; Magothy River above a line drawn from Mountain
Point to Persimmon Point; Little Magothy River; Whitehall
Bay between the shore and a line drawn from Hackett's Point
to Possum Point; Mill Creek; Severn River between the shore
and a line drawn from Greenbury Point to the east side of
the entrance to Lake Ogleton; South River between the shore
and a line drawn between Turkey Point and east side of
Duvall Creek, and extending 1,500 feet in front of Sandy
Point State Park and Fort Smallwood State Park; West River
south and west of a line running from Cheston Point to
Curtis Point; OR

(iv) Anywhere in Anne Arundel County north
of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge within 800 feet of the
shoreline, or south of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and north
of Thomas Point within 300 feet of the shoreline from
September 16 to April 15 and within 800 feet of the
shoreline from April 16 to September 15; south of Thomas
Point within 300, feet of the shoreline, except that between
Turkey Point and Ramsey Lake clamming is prohibited within
800 feet of the shoreline. This subsection does hot prohibit
the catching of clams by hydraulic clam dredge in West River
or Rhode River.

(6) [In the St. Mary's County waters of the
Chesapeake Bay, the Patuxent and Potomac Rivers, and their
tributaries within 150 feet of the shoreline.]

IN THE WATERS OF ST. MARY'S COUNTY:

(I) IN THE CHESAPEAKE BAY;

(II) IN THE PATUXENT RIVER;