FF-58-2010

PROCLAMATION

RE: BLACK SEA BASS – COMMERCIAL FISHING OPERATIONS – SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN

Dr. Louis B. Daniel III, Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 12:01 A.M, Saturday, June 12, 2010, the following restrictions will apply to the commercial black sea bass fishery south of Cape Hatteras (35° 15’N. Latitude):

I. SEASON AND SIZE LIMIT

A. The season for black sea bass taken with commercial fishing equipment or for commercial purposes in the Atlantic Ocean south of Cape Hatteras is open. The black sea bass minimum size limit for commercial purposes south of Cape Hatteras remains 10 inches in total length.

B. The season will remain open until May 31, 2011 or until the designated quota is met.

II. 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 NC Marine Fisheries Rules 15A NCAC 03M.0512.

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 03H .0103.

C. Fisheries Rule 15A NCAC 03I .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 licensees possession.

D. The intent of this proclamation is to allow North Carolina to comply with the requirements of the Fishery Management Plan for the Snapper-Grouper Fishery of the South Atlantic Region.

E. This proclamation does not effect harvest of black sea bass north of Cape Hatteras.

June 9, 2010
1:30 P.M.
FF-58-2010