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PA-15-2008 PROCLAMATION RE: SHELLFISH POLLUTED AREA Dr. Louis B. Daniel III, Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, upon the recommendation of Leah Devlin, D.D.S., M.P.H., State Health Director, Department of Health and Human Services, hereby announces that the following changes in shellfish harvesting areas will take effect at sunrise, Wednesday, February 27, 2008. All those waters in Brunswick and Carteret Counties will return to the status in existence immediately prior to the February 18, 2008 temporary closures with the following exceptions which will remain closed: CARTERET COUNTY Wards Creek - All those waters in Wards Creek east of a line beginning on the south shore on the impoundment bulkhead at 34° 45' 27.1" N – 76° 35' 10.6" W, running 342° 15' 08" TRUE to a point on the north shore at 34° 46' 16.0" N – 76° 35' 29.6" W (DMF shrimp line). Sleepy Creek - All those waters in Sleepy Creek upstream of a straight line across the mouth. The following areas also remain closed: BRUNSWICK COUNTY All those waters 100 yards from the dredge spoils effluent pipe located on a spoil island south of the ICWW and east of Beacon #89 near the Ocean Isle Beach canals. All those waters 100 yards from the dredge spoils effluent pipe located on a spoil island south of the ICWW near Marker “57” and west of the Holden Beach Canals. CARTERET COUNTY Newport River Area - All those waters south and west of a line beginning at Penn Point thence in an easterly direction across the river in a straight line to Intracoastal Waterway Channel Marker #30; thence following the Intracoastal Waterway to the permanent shellfish closure line near the Chimney on Phillips Island; to include all of Newport River marshes; the Haystacks; Crab Point marshes and the shoreline between Crab Point and Penn Point. GENERAL INFORMATION: A. This proclamation is issued under the authority of N.C.G.S. 113-170.4; 113-170.5; 113-182; 113-221.1; 143B-289.52 and N.C. Marine Fisheries Rules 15A NCAC 3H .0103 and 3K .0101. B. It is unlawful to violate the provisions of any proclamation issued by the N.C. Fisheries Director under his delegated authority pursuant to N.C. Marine Fisheries Rule 15A NCAC 3H .0103. C. This proclamation returns the following areas to normal closure boundaries: Shallotte River, Lockwoods Folly River, Whitehurst Creek and a portion of North River. D. These reopenings are due to satisfactory bacteriological sampling results.
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