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New Jersey Statutes, Title: 50, SHELLFISHERIES - POWERS AND DUTIES OF DEPARTMENT, SHELLFISHERIES COUNCIL, LEASING, AND PLANTING
Chapter 3: Necessity for license and issuance thereof.
Section: 50:3-7: Size of dredge regulated.
50:3-7. No person shall use any dredge for the purpose of catching or taking shellfish from any of the natural beds or grounds in Delaware Bay or Delaware River above the line running direct from the mouth of Straight Creek to Cross Ledge Shoal Old Lighthouse, commonly known and hereinafter referred to as the "southwest line," except in that area known as Section "E" as defined in R.S.50:1-23, the tooth bar of which dredge measures more than 54 inches across from center of bolt hole to center of bolt hole where the frame thereof is fastened to the tooth bar, or any dredge which measures more than 5 feet 2 inches in width from the extreme outside to outside of frame, or any dredge which measures more than 21 inches from center of tooth bar to center of cross bar, or any dredge the bag of which contains more than 17 rows of 2 inch rings, or any dredge the rings of which are less than 2 inches in diameter, inside measurement, or any dredge the bag of which measures more than 5 feet around the bag from center of tooth bar to center of cross bar, or any dredge which weighs more than 250 pounds.
Amended 1979, c.199, s.43; 1981, c.62, s.3; 2007, c.338, s.47.
This section added to the Rutgers Database: 2012-09-26 13:37:55.
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