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PA-18-2008 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 change in shellfish harvesting areas will take effect at sunrise, Saturday, March 15, 2008. All those waters in White Oak River in Onslow and Carteret counties will return to the status in existence immediately prior to the March 8, 2008 temporary closure. 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 area to normal closure boundaries: White Oak River in Onslow and Carteret counties. D. This reopening is due to satisfactory bacteriological sampling results.
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