A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to allow the use of gill nets to fish for herring on town creek in brunswick county.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person holding a current and valid special device license may take herring with gill nets in the public waters of Town Creek in Brunswick County on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from March 1 through April 15.
SECTION 2.  There shall be an aggregate annual creel limit of 25 herring per license holder.  A license holder shall set no more than two gill nets at one time and each gill net shall not exceed 100 yards in length.  The license holder shall remain within 200 yards of each net at all times that the nets are set in the water.
SECTION 3.  This act shall apply only to the waters of Town Creek in Brunswick County.
SECTION 4.  This act becomes effective October 1, 2002.