Regulation .01 Fishery Management Plans.
Regulation .01 Fishery Management Plans.LinkCopy Citation
A.
The following Fishery Management Plans are adopted and incorporated by reference:
(1)
Chesapeake Bay Alosid Management Plan (July 1989), and Amendment I 1989 Chesapeake Bay Alosid Management Plan (June 1998);
(2)
Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab Management Plan (July 1989); Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab Management Plan (June 1997), Amendment I 1997 Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab Fishery Management Plan (October 2003), and Amendment #2 1997 Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab Fishery Management Plan May 31, 2012;
(3)
Maryland Chesapeake Bay Oyster Management Plan (May 2019) and Amendment 1 to the 2019 Maryland Chesapeake Bay Oyster Management Plan (December 2023);
(4)
Chesapeake Bay Striped Bass Management Plan (December 1989), and Amendment I 1998 Chesapeake Bay Striped Bass Fishery Management Plan (CB SBFMP) (1998);
(5)
Chesapeake Bay Bluefish Management Plan (December 1990), and Amendment I of the 1990 Chesapeake Bay Program Bluefish Fishery Management Plan (October 2003);
(6)
Chesapeake Bay Weakfish and Spotted Sea Trout Management Plan (December 1990), and 2003 Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) Weakfish (Cynoscion regalis) Fishery Management Plan (FMP) (December 2003);
(7)
Chesapeake Bay Summer Flounder Management Plan (December 1991) and Amendment I Chesapeake Bay Summer Flounder Management Plan (1998);
(8)
Chesapeake Bay Atlantic Croaker and Spot Fishery Management Plan (December 1991);
(9)
Chesapeake Bay American Eel Fishery Management Plan (December 1991) and Amendment 1 to the 1991 Chesapeake Bay American Eel Fishery Management Plan;
(10)
Chesapeake Bay Black Drum Fishery Management Plan (September 1993);
(11)
Chesapeake Bay Red Drum Fishery Management Plan (September 1993);
(12)
Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Coast Horseshoe Crab Fishery Management Plan (1994);
(13)
Chesapeake and Atlantic Coast King and Spanish Mackerel Fishery Management Plan (1994);
(14)
Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Coast Black Sea Bass Fishery Management Plan (October 1996);
(15)
Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Coast Tautog Fishery Management Plan (December 1998);
(16)
Coastal Bays Blue Crab Fishery Management Plan (September 2001);
(17)
Coastal Bays Hard Clam Fishery Management Plan (February 2002);
(18)
Maryland Tidewater Yellow Perch Fishery Management Plan (November 2002) and Amendment 1 to the 2002 Maryland Tidewater Yellow Perch Fishery Management Plan (December 2017);
(19)
Fishery Management Plan for Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides) in Maryland Tidewater (January 2014); and
(20)
Fishery Management Plan for Tidewater Catfish (December 2021).
B.
Under Natural Resources Article, §4-215, Annotated Code of Maryland, and a fishery management plan adopted in §A or B of this regulation, the Department has authority to substitute a regulation necessary to implement a plan for an otherwise applicable provision of Natural Resources Article, Title 4, Annotated Code of Maryland. In this subtitle, an intent to substitute an implementing regulation for a statutory provision is indicated by the phrase, “Notwithstanding Natural Resources Article, §4- . . . ”.