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Ch. 181
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Martin O'Malley, Governor
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Department, in consultation with certain stakeholders, to report annually to the
General Assembly on the environmental and economic impact of certain harvest
restrictions on or before a certain date requiring the Department of Natural
Resources to adopt certain regulations relating to yellow perch bv a certain
date: requiring the yellow perch management strategy adopted under this Act to
be based on certain objectives and measures: requiring the Department to
incorporate certain objectives into a certain fishery management plan for yellow
perch: requiring the Department in consultation with certain stakeholders, to
prepare and submit to certain committees of the General Assembly a certain
report related to fisheries on or before a certain date; and generally relating to
fishery management in the State.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Section 4-215(h)
(2005 Replacement Volume and 2006 Supplement)
BY adding to
Article - Natural Resources
Section 4-710(j) 4-215.2
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2005 Replacement Volume and 2006 Supplement)
Preamble
WHEREAS, There is an immediate need to conserve the dwindling stock of and
allocate yellow perch in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries for the purpose of
sustaining the yellow perch population in the future and ensuring the continued
economic viability of the yellow perch commercial fishery recreational and commercial
fisheries; and
WHEREAS, Maryland's angling community is concerned about the State's
regulatory efforts to manage this coveted fishery because of questionable
science based policies that allow the continue the current practices of commercial
harvesting of yellow perch: (1) as the perch attempt to reach their ancestral spawning
grounds; (2) at rates and with nets absent any appropriate limits; and (3) within
tributaries previously restocked for yellow perch propagation purposes; and
WHEREAS, Markets for yellow perch harvested in Maryland are primarily
located out of State; and
WHEREAS, The commercial harvest of yellow perch comprises the
majority of the annual catch in Maryland and, under existing regulatory policies, is
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