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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".01" citation="COMAR 08.02.01.01" title_num="08" subtitle_num="02" chapter_num="01" heading="Fishery Management Plans.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>The following Fishery Management Plans are adopted and incorporated by reference:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Chesapeake Bay Alosid Management Plan (July 1989), and Amendment I 1989 Chesapeake Bay Alosid Management Plan (June 1998);</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>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;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Maryland Chesapeake Bay Oyster Management Plan (May 2019) and Amendment 1 to the 2019 Maryland Chesapeake Bay Oyster Management Plan (December 2023);</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Chesapeake Bay Striped Bass Management Plan (December 1989), and Amendment I 1998 Chesapeake Bay Striped Bass Fishery Management Plan (CB SBFMP) (1998);</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>Chesapeake Bay Bluefish Management Plan (December 1990), and Amendment I of the 1990 Chesapeake Bay Program Bluefish Fishery Management Plan (October 2003);</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>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);</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(7)">
      <text>Chesapeake Bay Summer Flounder Management Plan (December 1991) and Amendment I Chesapeake Bay Summer Flounder Management Plan (1998);</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(8)">
      <text>Chesapeake Bay Atlantic Croaker and Spot Fishery Management Plan (December 1991);</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(9)">
      <text>Chesapeake Bay American Eel Fishery Management Plan (December 1991) and Amendment 1 to the 1991 Chesapeake Bay American Eel Fishery Management Plan;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(10)">
      <text>Chesapeake Bay Black Drum Fishery Management Plan (September 1993);</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(11)">
      <text>Chesapeake Bay Red Drum Fishery Management Plan (September 1993);</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(12)">
      <text>Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Coast Horseshoe Crab Fishery Management Plan (1994);</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(13)">
      <text>Chesapeake and Atlantic Coast King and Spanish Mackerel Fishery Management Plan (1994);</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(14)">
      <text>Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Coast Black Sea Bass Fishery Management Plan (October 1996);</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(15)">
      <text>Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Coast Tautog Fishery Management Plan (December 1998);</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(16)">
      <text>Coastal Bays Blue Crab Fishery Management Plan (September 2001);</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(17)">
      <text>Coastal Bays Hard Clam Fishery Management Plan (February 2002);</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(18)">
      <text>Maryland Tidewater Yellow Perch Fishery Management Plan (November 2002) and Amendment 1 to the 2002 Maryland Tidewater Yellow Perch Fishery Management Plan (December 2017);</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(19)">
      <text>Fishery Management Plan for Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides) in Maryland Tidewater (January 2014); and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(20)">
      <text>Fishery Management Plan for Tidewater Catfish (December 2021).</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>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- . . . ”.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>