WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor

Ch. 38

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, 1
1/2 inches; gill net, 2 1/2 inches; fyke or hoop net, 1 1/2
inches.

(2) ANY HEDGING OR LEAD ATTACHED TO A FISH TRAP, FYKE
NET, OR POUND NET SHALL BE CONSTRUCTED OF MATERIALS WHICH HAVE
MESHES HAVING A TWINE SIZE OF #12 OR LARGER.

[{2)] (3) Until December 31, 1979, 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. After December 31, 1979, in the Chesapeake
Bay and its tributaries, a person may not set or fish any gill
net whose size of stretched mesh is more than 6 inches.

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

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1989.

Approved April 11, 1989.

CHAPTER 38

(Senate Bill 354)

AN ACT concerning

Wicomico County - Board of Education - Compensation

FOR the purpose of repealing the payment of a certain amount to
the members of the Wicomico County Board of Education as
reimbursement for travel and other expenses; and
establishing amounts annually paid to the chairman and
members of the Wicomico County Board of Education as
compensation.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Education

Section 4-106

Annotated Code of Maryland

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