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North Carolina Marine Fisheries Proclamation FF-45-2020 opens the Atlantic Ocean commercial flounder season and establishes a 20,000-pound offload limit for the harvest period.

Vessels can possess landing limits for other states, but it is unlawful to offload those fish in North Carolina.

The fishery opens at 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020 and closes at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 31, or sooner by proclamation if the state’s annual quota is reached.

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