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PA-6-2008 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, Thursday, January 24, 2008. Lockwoods Folly River in Brunswick County and Bear Creek in Onslow County will return to the status in existence immediately prior to the January 18, 2008 temporary closures. The following areas 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. ONSLOW COUNTY All those waters upstream of a line beginning on the north shore of New River at Grey Point, running southeasterly to a point on the south shore of New River north of Goose Creek. 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: Lockwoods Folly and Bear Creek. D. These reopenings are due to satisfactory bacteriological sampling results. January 23, 2008 |