NOTICE OF AGENCY RULE-MAKING PROPOSAL: Chapter 10.05 Taking of Quahogs in the Sub-Tidal Waters of New Meadows Lakes, Brunswick and West Bath
Maine Department of Marine Resources sent this bulletin at 09/19/2018 01:02 PM EDT
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The Department announces the following rule proposal:
Chapter 10.05 Taking of Quahogs in the Sub-Tidal Waters of New Meadows Lakes, Brunswick and West Bath
The proposed regulation expands certain existing limitations on the harvest of quahogs from the New Meadows Lakes. Under the existing regulation, the line north of which the harvest restrictions apply is the Bath/State Road in Brunswick and West Bath. The proposal is to draw a new line north of which the limitations would apply, from the northwestern tip of Indian Point, southeasterly to northern tip of Bragdon Island, continuing east to Bragdon Rock, and then continuing in a northeasterly direction to the point of land at the end of Close Reach Rd, West Bath, 43051’21”/069052’1”. By specifying this new line, the existing restriction on the method of harvest to hand digging only, the prohibition on harvesting during the winter months (January-March), and the prohibition on harvesting on Sundays, would extend over the known quahog resource, in order to better manage the quahog fishery in this area.
PUBLIC HEARING: October 10, 2018, 3PM, West Bath Fire Station, 192 State Road, West Bath, 04530.
COMMENT DEADLINE: October 20, 2018
For more information, please see the attached document.