Proposed Bill would Tighten Flounder Limit
Posted on May 29, 2009
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The majority of local hook and line flounder fishermen would be quick to tell you- South Carolina’s regulations for the popular flatfish are much too liberal and they rarely if ever come close to catching the current daily limits of 20 flounder per person or boat limit of 40 flounder.
A significant change in the state’s flounder recreational bag limit could be on the way if Bill S 445 make it through the S.C. House of Representatives and is subsequently approved by Gov. Mark Sanford.
The bill, which has already been passed in the Senate, would drop South Carolina’s daily flounder limits from 20 per person to 10 and 40 per boat to 20.
The bill would also establish a Flounder Pilot Program to be administered by the S.C. department of Natural Resources, which would outlaw for a five-year period the use of any type of artificial illumination powered by a generator while gigging or fishing for flounder in the estuaries from Pawleys Island northward through Murrells Inlet. The prohibition of generator-driven lights in those areas would begin July 1 and end June 30, 2014 if the bill becomes a law.
Sponsored by Sen. Ray Cleary, R- Georgetown, and Sen. Yancey McGill, D-Williamsburg, the bill was originally designed to establish a flounder population study program from Pawleys Island to Murrells Inlet. But in the Senate on March 26 the statewide changes to the daily bag limit and boat limits for flounder were added. Read more
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