Code of Maine Rules
13 - DEPARTMENT OF MARINE RESOURCES
188 - MARINE RESOURCES - GENERAL
Chapter 10 - CLAMS AND QUAHOGS
Section 188-10-01 - Prohibitions on Dredging for Quahogs
Current through 2024-38, September 18, 2024
It is unlawful to dredge or to take quahogs by any means, except the usual manner of hand digging with a so-called clam hoe, or by hand raking and hand tonging, or by picking quahogs out of the mud by hand from the following locations. This prohibition shall not apply to equipment operated by the Department of Marine Resources.
A. Maquoit Bay. The waters or flats of Maquoit Bay, Cumberland County, namely, all of the territory north and northeast of a line drawn from the most southerly end of Mere Point in the Town of Brunswick to the northeasterly end of Little Flying Point in the town of Freeport.
B. Middle Bay. The waters or flats of Middle Bay, Cumberland County, namely all of the territory north and northeasterly of a line drawn from a red marker, on the eastern shore of Mere Point and located at Blackstone Rock on the south shore of Win Smith Cove, so-called, then in an easterly direction to and including the northern shore of Birch Island and continuing in the same general direction to a red painted wood post placed on the northern point of Wilson Cove, so- called, located in the western shore of Harpswell Neck.
C. New Meadows River. The waters or flats of the subtidal area of the New Meadows River east of Rt. 24 and north of a line drawn from the northwestern tip of Indian Point, southeasterly to the northern tip of Bragdon Island, continuing east to Bragdon Rock, and then continuing in a northeasterly direction to the point of land at the end of Close Reach Rd., West Bath, 43051'21"/069052'1".
