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850 LAWS OF MARYLAND Ch. 194
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Section 4-1011(a) and (b) and 4-1012(a) and (b)(4)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1974 Volume and 1982 Supplement)
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SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
Article - Natural Resources
4-1011.
(a) A person may not use patent tongs to catch oysters in
any of the following waters: Wicomico, Queen Anne's, Talbot,
Dorchester, and Kent counties, except on [Swann Point Bar, White
Marsh, Gum Spring, under the Bar and Entrance Lumps. However, the
Department may open or close Hickory Thicket Bar.] THE FOLLOWING
NATURAL OYSTER BARS: 2-9, 5-1, 5-2, 5-3B, AND 5-7, AS DEFINED ON
THE CHARTS OF THE OYSTER SURVEY OF 1906 TO 1912, AND ITS
AMENDMENTS.
(b) A person may catch oysters by patent or hand tongs[,
but not by dredging,] in Talbot County waters within the
following bounds:
[Beginning in Eastern Bay at a point on the Talbot-Queen
Anne's County line which is intersected by a straight line drawn
from Lowes Point to the Bloody Point Lighthouse, from there in a
northeasterly direction along the Talbot-Queen Anne's County line
to the point where a straight line drawn from the Long Point buoy
to the Wades Point bell-buoy (R "2a") intersects the county line,
from there in a southeasterly direction to the Wades Point
bell-buoy (R "2a"), from there towards Wades Point for a distance
of six-tenths of a mile to the six foot depth contour line of the
Eastern Bay shore of Talbot County, from there along the contour
line (approximately one-half mile from the shore) in a
southwesterly direction to a point where the contour line
intersects a straight line drawn from the easternmost corner of
the Lowes Point Oyster Bar to the northernmost corner of Lowes
Point Oyster Bar, from there in a northernmost corner of the
Lowes Point Oyster Bar, from there in a southwesterly straight
line to a straight line drawn from Lowes Point to the Bloody
Point Lighthouse and being approximately one and three-quarter
miles in a northwesterly direction from Lowes Point, and from
there to the point of beginning. The bounds shall be marked by
buoys.] BEGINNING AT KENT POINT AND FOLLOWING THE TERRITORIAL
COUNTY LINE IN AN EASTERLY DIRECTION TO WHERE IT INTERCEPTS THE
QUEEN ANNE'S-TALBOT COUNTY LINE, THEN FOLLOWING THE COUNTY LINE
NORTHEASTERLY TO THE POINT WHERE A STRAIGHT LINE DRAWN FROM LONG
POINT TO THE WADES POINT BELL BUOY INTERSECTS THE COUNTY LINE,
FROM THERE IN A SOUTHEASTERLY DIRECTION TO THE WADES POINT BELL
BUOY, AND THEN DIRECT TO WADES POINT, AND THEN FOLLOWING THE
SHORELINE TO LOWES POINT, AND THEN DIRECT TOWARDS THE BLOODY
POINT LIGHTHOUSE FOR A DISTANCE OF 1.8 MILES, AND THEN DIRECT TO
NORTH POINT ON POPLAR ISLAND.
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