PROCLAMATION
RE: RIVER HERRING
Preston P. Pate, Jr., Director, Division of Marine
Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 6:00 P.M., Friday, May 13, 2005, the following restrictions will
apply to the harvest of river herring:
The season for harvest of river herring in the Albemarle
Sound Herring Management Area and the Chowan
River Herring Management Area is closed. No person or fishing operation may take,
possess, land, sell or offer for sale river herring (blueback herring or
alewife) taken with commercial gear for commercial purposes.
The Albemarle Sound Herring Management Area and the Chowan
River Herring Management Area as described in Marine Fisheries Rule 15A NCAC
3J. 0209.
A. This proclamation is issued under the
authority of G.S. 113-134; 113-170.4; 113-170.5; 113-181; 113-182;
113-221.1(b); 143B-289.52 and N.C. Fisheries Rules 15A NCAC 3H .0103 and 3M
.0513.
B.
It is unlawful to
violate the provisions of any proclamation issued by the Fisheries Director
under his delegated authority per N.C. Marine Fisheries Rule15A NCAC 3H .0103.
C.
This proclamation
supersedes portions of FF-68-2004 dated December 23, 2004 which opened the
commercial season in the Albemarle Sound Herring Management Area and the Chowan
River Herring Management Area.
May 11, 2005
11:50 A.M.
FF-32-2005
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