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SB 159 - Flounder & Whiting - no possession limit, certain vessels

Williams, Tommie A. (6th)	Blitch, Peg (7th)	Gillis, Sr., Hugh M (20th)

Status Summary	SC:	NATR	HC:	GF&P	FR:	02/12/99	LA:	03/15/99	H - Read 2nd Time (CS/FA )

First Reader Summary

A bill to amend Code Section 27-4-130.1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to open seasons, creel and possession limits, and minimum size limits for certain finfish species, so as to provide that there shall be no possession limit on flounder and whiting for certain vessels.

SB 159 99                                        SB159/CSFA/3 
 
      SENATE BILL 159 
 
      By:  Senators Williams of the 6th, Blitch of the 7th and 
           Gillis of the 20th 
 
                        A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 
                               AN ACT 
 
 
  1- 1  To amend Code Section 27-4-130.1 of the Official Code of 
  1- 2  Georgia Annotated, relating to open seasons, creel and 
  1- 3  possession limits, and minimum size limits for certain 
  1- 4  finfish species, so as to expand the possession limit on 
  1- 5  whiting for certain vessels; to repeal conflicting laws; and 
  1- 6  for other purposes. 
 
  1- 7       BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA: 
 
  1- 8                           SECTION 1. 
 
  1- 9  Code Section 27-4-130.1 of the Official Code of Georgia 
  1-10  Annotated, relating to open seasons, creel and possession 
  1-11  limits, and minimum size limits for certain finfish species, 
  1-12  is amended by striking in its entirety subsection (c), and 
  1-13  inserting in lieu thereof the following: 
 
  1-14      "(c)(1) It shall be unlawful to take the following 
  1-15      salt-water finfish species at any time except during the 
  1-16      open seasons so established for such species or to take 
  1-17      or possess the following salt-water finfish species 
  1-18      except in accordance with the creel and possession 
  1-19      limits and minimum sizes so established for such 
  1-20      species: 
 
  1-21        Species             Maximum        Maximum    Minimum 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  1-22        (1)(A) Spotted       All year        15     13 inches 
  1-23            seatrout 
 
  1-24        (2)(B) Weakfish      All year         6     13 inches 
 
  1-25        (3)(C) Black drum    All year        15     10 inches 
 
 
 
 
 
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  2- 1        (4)(D) Flounder      All year        15     12 inches 
  2- 2            (Paralicthys 
  2- 3            spp.) 
 
  2- 4        (5)(E) Whiting       All year        35 
 
  2- 5            (Menticirrhus 
  2- 6            spp.) 
 
  2- 7        (6)(F) Spot          All year        25      8 inches 
 
  2- 8        (7)(G) Atlantic      All year        25      8 inches 
  2- 9            croaker 
 
  2-10        (8)(H) Tripletail    All year         5     18 inches 
 
  2-11      (2) Any provision of paragraph (1) of this subsection to 
  2-12      the contrary notwithstanding, there shall be a 
  2-13      possession limit of 100 per person per day on whiting 
  2-14      for a commercial trawler using a turtle exclusion device 
  2-15      and a bycatch reduction device." 
 
  2-16                           SECTION 2. 
 
  2-17  All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are 
  2-18  repealed. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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