PA-16-2008

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, Sunday, March 2, 2008.

All those waters in Carteret County will return to the status in existence immediately prior to the February 18, 2008 temporary closures.

THE FOLLOWING AREA REMAINS TEMPORARILY CLOSED:

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: Sleepy Creek and Ward Creek.

D. These reopenings are due to satisfactory bacteriological sampling results.


March 1, 2008
12:00 p.m.
PA-16-2008
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