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Marine Fisheries - Proclamation M-32-2015

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III. GILL NET YARDAGE RESTRICTIONS
A fishing operation, regardless of the number of vessels or persons involved, shall adhere to the gill net yardage restrictions specified:
It is unlawful to use more than 800 yards of gill net with a stretched mesh length of 3 through 4 inches in any combination per commercial fishing operation.

IV. GEAR EXEMPTIONS AND RESTRICTIONS FOR RUN-AROUND, STRIKE, DROP, DRIFT AND MULTI-PANEL TRAMMEL GILL NETS

A. Exempted gear definitions (including multi-panel trammel gill nets):
1. Runaround, strike, drop or multi-panel trammel gill nets - gill nets that are set and then are immediately retrieved.

2. Drift gill nets - gill nets that are used to capture fish while being moved along by water currents and the net being actively fished and attended from deployment through retrieval.
B. It is unlawful to use drift gill nets in the Joint Fishing Waters portion of the Roanoke, Middle, Eastmost, Cashie, Chowan and Meherrin rivers and all other joint water tributaries of the Albemarle Sound Management Area as defined in N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission Rule 15 NCAC 03R. 0201.

C. It is unlawful to use run-around, strike, drift, drop and multi-panel trammel gill nets with a stretched mesh length less than 3 inches and greater than 3 ¼ inches. Except in the area of Management Unit A south of the Virginia Dare Memorial Bridge and the Washington Baum Bridge, run-around, strike, drift, drop and multi-panel trammel gill nets with a stretched mesh length of 3 inches through 4 inches may be used.

D. It is unlawful to use or possess more than 800 yards of run-around, strike, drift, drop and multi-panel trammel gill net per commercial fishing operation.

V. ADDITIONAL RESTRICTIONS FOR AREA DESCRIBED IN I.C. ONLY

A. It is unlawful to use more than 1,000 yards of gill net with a stretched mesh length of 5 ½ through 6 ½ inches per commercial fishing operation.

B. It is unlawful to fail to actively fish gill net sets with a stretched mesh length of 5 ½ inches through 6 ½ inches at least once during a 24 hour period no later than noon each day.
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