GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 555

HOUSE BILL 1140

 

AN ACT TO PERMIT TAKING STRIPED BASS FROM THE TAR RIVER WITH BOW NETS AND DIP NETS UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  A new sentence is added at the end of G.S.

113-292(a) to read:

"The Wildlife Resources Commission shall permit the taking of striped bass from the inland fishing waters of the Tar River within Edgecombe County with bow nets and dip nets during such times or seasons when net fishing for striped bass is permitted by the regulations of the Marine Fisheries Commission in the contiguous coastal fishing waters of the Pamlico-Tar River downstream of the inland fishing waters."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification and shall expire June 30, 1984.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of June, 1983.