FF-52-2001
PROCLAMATION
RE: FLOUNDER
Preston P. Pate, Jr., Director, Division of Marine
Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 12:01 A.M., Thursday, November 1, 2001, the following restrictions
will apply to the commercial flounder fishery:
TRIP
LIMITS
A) No commercial
fishing operation, regardless of the number of people involved, may land more
than 100 pounds of flounder per day taken from the Atlantic Ocean.
B) A subsequent proclamation will be issued
concerning the allocation of the remaining fall commercial flounder quota. The
Atlantic Ocean flounder fishery will close immediately after the Director
issues a public notice that the fall quota of flounder has been landed from the
Atlantic Ocean.
A) This proclamation
is issued under the authority of G.S. 113-134; 113-181; 113-182; 113-221(e);
143B-289.52 and NC Marine Fisheries Rules 15A NCAC 3M .0503 and 3O. 0500.
B) It is unlawful to violate the provisions of
any proclamation issued by the Fisheries
Director under his delegated authority per 15A NCAC 3H
.0103.
C) For the purposes of
this proclamation, fish shall be considered landed when fish are unloaded or
the vessel is tied to the dock.
D) Fisheries Rule
15A NCAC 3I .0113 specifies that it is unlawful for any licensee under Chapter
113, Subchapter IV of the General Statutes to refuse to allow the Fisheries
Director or his agents to obtain biological data, harvest information, or other
statistical data necessary or useful to the conservation and management of
marine and estuarine resources from fish in the licensee=s possession.
E) The intent of this
proclamation is to establish trip limits for the taking of flounder from the
Atlantic Ocean to assure that the fall, 2001 quota allocated to North Carolina
in the joint Mid-Atlantic Fisheries Management Council - Atlantic States Marine
Fisheries Commission Fishery Management Plan for Summer Flounder is not
exceeded.
October 25, 2001
10:00 P.M.
FF-52-2001
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