RE: STRIPED BASS SEASON - COMMERCIAL FISHING
OPERATIONS - INTERNAL COASTAL WATERS OF CARTERET, CRAVEN, BEAUFORT, AND PAMLICO
COUNTIES, PUNGO AND WHITE OAK RIVERS AS DESCRIBED BELOW
Preston P. Pate, Jr.,
Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 6:00 P.M. Friday, December 13, 2002,
the striped bass season WILL CLOSE
in the areas described below for COMMERCIAL
FISHING OPERATIONS.
I. AREA
DESCRIPTION
A. Pamlico and Pungo rivers and their joint
and coastal water tributaries west of a line beginning at a point on the north
shore 35° 22.3000’ N - 76° 28.2666’ W (Roos Point) running south through Marker
#1 to a point on the south shore 35°
18.7666’ - 76° 29.0000’ W (Pamlico Point).
B. Jones
Bay/Bay River - west of a line at Sow Island Point at 35° 13.0166’ N-76°
29.7000' W, running southwest to a point at Bay Point at 35° 11.0833' N-76°
31.5666'W, then running southerly to Maw Point at 35° 9.0333’ N-76° 32.1666' W.
C. Neuse River - west of a line beginning at
Maw Point at 35° 9.0333' N-76° 32.1666’ W, running southeast to Point of Marsh at 35° 4.5500' N- 76°
28.2333’ W.
D. West Bay- south of a line beginning at a
point at 35° 3.5166’N-76° 26.1333’ W
running southeasterly to a point at 35° 2.1833'N-76° 21.7500' W.
E. All internal coastal waters of Carteret
County south of a line from Camp Point at 35° 0.0833' N-76° 14.8000' W, through
Wainwright Island running easterly to a point on Core Banks at 34°
58.8166’N-76° 12.4666’W to and including all of White Oak River up to the
Inland Water boundary.
II. SEASON
No person may take, possess, transport, buy, sell or offer
for sale striped bass from the area defined above, except dealers will have
until December 31, 2001 to sell,
offer for sale, transport, or have in possession unfrozen striped bass taken in
this fishery prior to the closure.
III. GENERAL INFORMATION
A. This proclamation is issued under the
authority of G.S. 113-169.1; 113-170.4; 113-170.5; 113-182; 113-221(e); 143B-289.52;
and N.C. Marine Fisheries Rules 15A
NCAC 3H .0103, 3I .0112, 3M .0201, 3 M .0202, 3O .0500 and 3Q .0107.
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. The annual allotment of the non-Albemarle Sound Management Area quota (25,000 pounds) for striped bass has been reached. The intent of this proclamation is to equitably distribute the quota established by the North Carolina Estuarine Striped Bass Fishery Management Plan.
D. This proclamation
supersedes Proclamation FF-49-2002, dated November 5, 2002, which opened the
above area.
December 11, 2002
12:30 P.M.
FF-60-2002
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