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Bob
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Bass, Largemouth
Tidal Regs
Recreational Minimum Size Limit: 15" min size March 1 through June 15, 12" all other
times
Recreational Season, Days and Times: OPEN YEARROUND
Recreational Creel Limit Per Angler Per Day: 5 fish/person/day
Non-tidal Regs
Recreational Season: Closed Season March 1 to June 15
Recreational Creel Limit Per Angler Per Day: 5 fish/person/day
Size Limits: 12"
Catch and Release areas and other restrictions are listed in the 1999 Maryland
Freshwater Sportsfishing Guide
Bass, Black Sea
Recreational Minimum Size Limit: 10" minimum size
Recreational Season, Days and Times: CLOSED August 1 - August 15, 1999
Recreational Creel Limit Per Angler Per Day: No Creel Limit
Bass, Striped (Rockfish) No landing with gaff
Recreational Striped Bass Permits REQUIRED
1999 Recreational Season, Days and Times: TO BE ANNOUNCED
1999 BAY SEASON PROPOSED:
Bay Hours are 5:00 AM to 12 Midnight Possession of Striped Bass Prohibited Midnight
to 5:00 AM
Spring (28" min size), 1 fish/person/day, no live eels, fishing is restricted to the mainstem of
Chesapeake Bay and Tangier & Pocomoke Sounds(no tributaries)from April 23 through May 31
Early Summer June 1-13, 1999, One fish 18"-28" min size and One fish over 28", Total 2
fish/person/day
Summer and Fall June 14-November 30, 1999, 18" min size, 2 fish/person/day
OCEAN SEASON:
Jan 1 - Dec 31, 1999 28" min size, 2 fish/person/day
POTOMAC RIVER 99 SEASON:
Recreational Striped Bass Permits and REPORTING REQUIRED Call the Potomac River
Fisheries Commission at 800 266-3904)
Virginia Regulations
Bluefish
Recreational Minimum Size Limit: 8" minimum size
Recreational Season, Days and Times: OPEN YEAR ROUND
Recreational Creel Limit Per Angler Per Day: 10 fish/person/day
Catfish: Blue, Channel, White
Recreational Minimum Size Limit: 10" minimum size
Recreational Season, Days and Times: OPEN YEAR ROUND
Crabs, Blue
Recreational Minimum Size Limit: 5" hard, 3.5" soft, 3" peeler
Recreational Season, Days and Times: April 1 - November 30, 1999, Closed Wednesdays,
hours: 0530-1700 main bay, 0530-sunset in tidal tributaries, no time limit for hand lines, dip nets,
pots at private piers
Recreational Crabber Harvest Limit Per Unlicensed Crabber Per Day: 1 bu/person/day
Not to Exceed 2 bu/boat/day,
Recreational Unlicensed Gear Limits:
From docks & shorelines: No more than 10 traps/rings or combination thereof per person
From boats: No more than 25 traps/rings or combination thereof per boat (regardles of number of
people on the boat)
Not more than 1000 feet of baited trotline per person, if more than one person on a boat not more
than 2000 feet of baited trotline per boat
The use of Crab Pots is RESTRICTED to two pots per private waterfront property/parcel and
must be fitted with By-Catch Reduction Device
A collapsible crab trap or crab net ring which is not attached to a pier, wharf, or boat shall be
marked with a buoy bearing the name of the owner.
Non-Commercial Crabbing License Regulations TO BE ANNOUNCED
Crabs, Horseshoe
Recreational Minimum Size Limit: NO Size Limit
Recreational Season, Days and Times: Emergency Regulations Pending OPEN July 1 - March
31, 1998
Recreational Creel Limit Per Angler Per Day: NO Creel Limit
Croaker
Recreational Minimum Size Limit: 9" minimum size
Recreational Season, Days and Times: OPEN YEAR ROUND
Recreational Creel Limit Per Angler Per Day: 25 fish/person/day
Drum, Black
Recreational Minimum Size Limit: 16" minimum size
Recreational Season, Days and Times: OPEN YEAR ROUND As of April 1998 Black Drum
is no longer a commercial fishery
Recreational Creel Limit Per Angler Per Day: 1 fish/person/day, 6 fish/boat/day
Drum, Red
Recreational Minimum Size Limit: 18" minimum size
Recreational Season, Days and Times: OPEN YEAR ROUND
Recreational Creel Limit Per Angler Per Day: 5 fish/person/day only 1 fish over 27"
Eel, American
Recreational Minimum Size Limit: 6" minimum size
Recreational Season, Days and Times: OPEN YEAR ROUND
Recreational Creel Limit Per Angler Per Day: 25 eels less than 6"/person/day
Flounder, Summer
Recreational Minimum Size Limit: 15" minimum size EFFECTIVE 8/28/98
Recreational Season, Days and Times: OPEN YEAR ROUND
Recreational Creel Limit Per Angler Per Day: 8 fish/person/day EFFECTIVE 8/28/98
Hard Clam
Recreational Minimum Size Limit: 1" thick
Recreational Season, Days and Times: In Worcester County Clamming Hours are between 1
hour before sunrise and 1 hour after sunset
Recreational Creel Limit Per Angler Per Day: Hand tools ONLY 1 bu/person/day Jun 1 -
Sept 15
Herring
Recreational Minimum Size Limit: NO Size Limit
Recreational Season, Days and Times: OPEN January 1 - June 5
Recreational Creel Limit Per Angler Per Day: NO Creel Limit
Lobster
Recreational Minimum Size Limit: 3 1/4" carapace measurement
Recreational Season, Days and Times: OPEN YEAR ROUND
Recreational Creel Limit Per Angler Per Day: NO Limit
Mackerel, Spanish
Recreational Minimum Size Limit: 14" minimum size
Recreational Season, Days and Times: OPEN YEAR ROUND
Recreational Creel Limit Per Angler Per Day: 10 fish/person/day
Oysters
Recreational Minimum Size Limit: 3" minimum size
Recreational Season, Days and Times: CLOSED Re-OPEN Oct 1, 1998 - Mar 31, 1999
Select Bars are Closed
Recreational Creel Limit Per Angler Per Day: 1bu/person/day
Perch, Yellow
Recreational Minimum Size Limit: 8.5" minimum size in some areas, 9" in others
Recreational Season, Days and Times: OPEN YEAR ROUND WITH THE EXCEPTION
OF THE FOLLOWING TRIBUTARIES: MAGOTHY RIVER WATERSHED,NANTICOKE
RIVER, PATAPSCO RIVER, SEVERN RIVER, SOUTH RIVER WATERSHED, WEST
RIVER WATERSHED.
Recreational Creel Limit Per Angler Per Day: barbless hooks required Feb 1 - March 15 5
fish/person/day
Perch, White
Recreational Minimum Size Limit: NO Size Limit
Recreational Season, Days and Times: OPEN YEAR ROUND
Recreational Creel Limit Per Angler Per Day: NO Creel Limit
Pickerel
Recreational Minimum Size Limit: 14" minimum size
Recreational Season, Days and Times: OPEN May 1 1998 - March 14, 1999
Recreational Creel Limit Per Angler Per Day: 10 fish/person/day
Scup
Recreational Minimum Size Limit: 7" minimum size
Recreational Season, Days and Times: OPEN YEAR ROUND
Recreational Creel Limit Per Angler Per Day: NONE
Shad, American & Hickory
Recreational Season, Days and Times: CLOSED INDEFINITELY
Shark (See list in Regulations)
Recreational Minimum Size Limit: 58" minimum size applies to Shark landed for Commercial
purposes
Recreational Season, Days and Times: OPEN YEAR ROUND
Recreational Creel Limit Per Angler Per Day: 1 shark/person/day
Spot
Recreational Minimum Size Limit: NO Size Limit
Recreational Season, Days and Times: OPEN YEAR ROUND
Recreational Creel Limit Per Angler Per Day: NO Creel Limit
Spotted Sea Trout
Recreational Minimum Size Limit: 14" minimum size
Recreational Season, Days and Times: OPEN YEAR ROUND
Recreational Creel Limit Per Angler Per Day: 10 fish/person/day
Sturgeon, Shortnose & Atlantic
Recreational Season, Days and Times: CLOSED
Tautog
Recreational Minimum Size Limit: 14" minimum size
Recreational Season, Days and Times: OPEN YEAR ROUND
Recreational Creel Limit Per Angler Per Day: 5 fish/person/day
Tuna
Federal Regulations in Effect, Click Here to go to Federal Site USA TUNA
Recreational Season, Days and Times: CATEGORY CLOSURES IN EFFECT Federal regs
subject to change CALL 301 713-2347
Weakfish
Recreational Minimum Size Limit: 14" minimum size
Recreational Season, Days and Times: OPEN YEAR ROUND
Recreational Creel Limit Per Angler Per Day: 10 fish/person/day |
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