THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, March 1, 1996 TAG: 9603010485
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B4 EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA
LENGTH: Short : 20 lines
North Carolina ports will be closed to the landing of flounder caught in the Atlantic Ocean with commercial gear beginning Sunday.
Fishermen will be allowed to land up to 100 pounds of ocean-caught flounder as a bycatch in nonflounder fisheries, such as the shrimp trawl fishery. For the purposes of this action, land means the boat is tied to the dock.
North Carolina ports will reopen to the landing of commercially caught flounder this fall.
For more information, call (800) 682-2632 or (919) 726-7021. by CNB