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North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries Proclamation M-10-2020 implemented small mesh gill net requirements in the Albemarle Sound Area of Management Unit A, which includes all internal coastal waters north of Oregon Inlet. Specifically included are Albemarle, Currituck, Croatan and Roanoke sounds and their tributaries.

The proclamation was effective May 1, 2020.

In Sub-Unit A1, the coastal waters of the Albemarle Sound and Joint waters of the Perquimans, Little and Pasquotank rivers are open to the use of gill nets as described:

In both Management Unit A and Sub-unit 1A, it is unlawful to use unattended gill nets with a stretched mesh length of 3 inches through 3¾ inches.

Again in both units, “it is unlawful to use run-around, strike, drop and trammel gill nets with a stretched mesh length less than 5½ inches and greater than 6½ inches (run-around, strike, drop, and trammel gill nets with a stretched mesh length of 5½ inches though 6½ inches MAY be used. Drift gill nets and fixed, stationary, or unattended gill nets with a stretched mesh length of 5½ inches though 6½ inches MAY NOT be used).”

It is unlawful to use more than 800 yards of gill net with a stretched mesh length of 5½ inches through 6½ inches in any combination per commercial fishing operation.

“It is unlawful to use drift gill nets in the Joint Fishing Waters portion of the Roanoke, Middle, Eastmost, Cashie, Chowan and Meherrin rivers and all other joint water tributaries of the Albemarle Sound Management Area,” states the proclamation.

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