North Carolina Administrative Code
Title 15A - Environmental Quality
Chapter 03 - MARINE FISHERIES
Subchapter L - SHRIMP, CRAB, AND LOBSTER
Section .0200 - CRABS
Section 03L .0203 - CRAB DREDGING
Universal Citation: 15A NC Admin Code 03L .0203
Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 6, September 16, 2024
(a) It is unlawful to take crabs with dredges except:
(1) from
January 1 through March 1 in the area of Pamlico Sound described in
15A NCAC
03R .0109; and
(2) incidental to lawful oyster dredging
operations in areas not subject to the exception in Subparagraph (a)(1) of this
Rule provided the weight of the crabs shall not exceed:
(A) 50 percent of the total weight of the
combined oyster and crab catch; or
(B) 500 pounds, whichever is less.
The Fisheries Director may, by proclamation authority established in 15A NCAC 03L .0201, further restrict the use of dredges to take blue crabs.
(b) It is unlawful to take crabs with dredges between sunset and sunrise and between sunset on any Saturday and sunrise on the following Monday, except in the Atlantic Ocean.
Authority
G.S.
113-134;
113-182;
113-221.1;
143B-289.52;
Eff.
January 1, 1991;
Amended Eff. April 1, 2014; May 1,
1997.
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