A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to make it unlawful to take shrimp with a trawl net in Certain inland waters in brunswick and New Hanover counties.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  It is hereby unlawful to take shrimp with a trawl net in the following described inland waters:
All inland waters (internal coastal fishing waters) in New Hanover and Brunswick Counties with the exception of those waters in the Cape Fear River south of a line beginning at a point on the west shore at 34° 04.6040'N ‑ 77° 56.4780'W running easterly to a point on the east shore 34° 04.7920'N ‑ 77° 53.3550'W. The following area in the Cape Fear River is also closed by this act. Those waters in the Cape Fear River bounded by a line beginning on the south side of the Spoil island at the intersection of the  IWW and the Cape Fear River ship channel at a point 34° 01.5780'N ‑ 77° 56.0010'W; running easterly to the east shore of the Cape Fear River at a point 34° 01.7230'N ‑ 77° 55.1010'W; running southerly and bounded by the shoreline to the Ferry Slip at Federal Point at a point 33° 57.8080'N ‑ 77° 56.4120'W; running northerly to Bird Island at a point 33° 58.3870'N ‑ 77° 56.5780'W; running northerly along the west shoreline of Bird Island and the Cape Fear River Spoil islands back to point of origin.
SECTION 2.  Violation of this act shall constitute a violation of G.S. 113‑187, and shall be punishable pursuant to that section.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective December 1, 2003, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.