§ 4-715. Baltimore County
West's Annotated Code of MarylandNatural ResourcesEffective: March 14, 2016
Effective: March 14, 2016
MD Code, Natural Resources, § 4-715
§ 4-715. Baltimore County
(a) A person may not fish with rod or hook and line from any kind of boat or float, or fish with nets of any kind within 1500 feet of any occupied duck blind for the period beginning two days prior to the open season, as promulgated by the Department of Interior of the United States for hunting wild waterfowl, and ending the day following the closing of the season in the following waters:
(b) A person may not set a pound net or any similar device in the waters of Back River and its tributaries.
(c) A person may not fish with rod, hook and line or a net in the waters of Bird River between November 1 and January 31, both dates inclusive. A person shall remove every net or stake used for taking fish before midnight on October 31.
(d) A person may not fish with a net of any kind in the waters of Dundee Creek west of a line drawn from Levering's Point on the north to Marshy Point on the south.
(e)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, a person may not fish in the waters of Gunpowder River lying in Baltimore County, with nets, from May 15 to September 15, both dates inclusive.
(2)(i) Except in areas where it is prohibited by the Department, in the waters of the Gunpowder River lying in Baltimore County or Harford County, on prior notification to the Department a person may catch carp 6 weeks before and during Passover in each year and 4 weeks before and during Rosh Hashanah through Yom Kippur in each year. If a person catches any fish variety other than carp under this paragraph, the person shall return them immediately to the water unharmed.
(f) A person may not fish with nets or seines of any kind in the waters of Middle River and its tributaries, defined as those waters northeast of a line drawn from Bowley Point southwesterly to the navigation light at the western end of Sue Island, between March 1 and June 1, both dates inclusive.
Credits
Added by Acts 1973, 1st Sp. Sess., c. 4, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1976, c. 183, § 1; Acts 1987, c. 472; Acts 1997, c. 469, §§ 1, 2, eff. Oct. 1, 1997; Acts 1998, c. 20, § 1, eff. April 14, 1998; Acts 2016, c. 8, § 1, eff. March 14, 2016.
Formerly Art. 66C, § 2270.
MD Code, Natural Resources, § 4-715, MD NAT RES § 4-715
Current through legislation effective through April 9, 2023, from the 2024 Regular Session of the General Assembly. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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