Compilation of Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia › Department 391 - RULES OF GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES › Chapter 391-2 - COASTAL RESOURCES › Subject 391-2-4 - SALTWATER FISHING REGULATIONS › Rule 391-2-4-.03 - Sound/Beach Boundaries

Current through Rules and Regulations
				filed through June 27, 2024
(1)
Purpose.
The purpose of
				these rules is to implement the authority of the Board of Natural Resources to
				promulgate rules and regulations to regulate the places wildlife can be taken.
				(O.C.G.A. 27-4-12).
(2)
Designations of Sound/Beach
				Boundaries
. Sound/Beach boundaries consist of an imaginary line running
				through coordinates generally located on the southern tip of a barrier island
				to the northern tip of the next barrier island immediately south.
(a) Estelle Sound (Savannah River). The
				boundary is from the point located at 32° 02' 04.5" N. Lat./ 80° 51'
				03.8" W. Long. at the easternmost end of the south jetty of the Savannah River
				Entrance to the point located at 32° 01' 48" N. Lat./ 80° 51' 09" W.
				Long. at the northern tip of Tybee Island.
(b) Wassaw Sound. The boundary is from the
				point located at 31° 56' 38" N. Lat./80° 55' 45" W. Long. on the
				southern tip of Little Tybee Island to the point located at 31° 54' 37.5"
				N. Lat./ 80° 56' 09.5" W. Long., directly in front of the large concrete
				bunker on the northern tip of Wassaw Island.
(c) Ossabaw Sound. The boundary is from the
				point located at 31° 51' 27" N. Lat./81° 00' 00" W. Long. on the
				southern tip of Wassaw Island to the point located at 31° 49' 02" N.
				Lat./81° 02' 17" W. Long. on the northern tip of Ossabaw Island.
(d) St. Catherines Sound. The boundary is
				from the point located at 31° 43' 17" N. Lat./81° 8' 13" W. Long. on
				the southern tip of Ossabaw Island to the point located at 31° 41' 55" N.
				Lat./81° 8' 23" W. Long. on the northern tip of St. Catherines
				Island.
(e) Sapelo Sound. The
				boundary is from the point located at 31° 33' 20" N. Lat./81°10' 35" W.
				Long on the southern tip of St. Catherines Island to the point located
				31°31' 50" N. Lat./81° 11' 13" W. Long. on the northern tip of Black
				Beard Island.
(f) Doboy Sound and
				Altamaha Sound. The boundary is from the point located at 31° 22' 55" N.
				Lat./81° 16' 25" W. Long. on the southern tip of Sapelo Is land to the
				point located at 31° 21' 50.48" N. Lat./81° 17' 36.63" W. Long. on the
				northern tip of Wolf Is land then turning south to a point located at 31°
				19' 34.12" N. Lat./81° 17' 18.20" W. Long. on the southern tip of Wolf Is
				land, finally turning southwest to a point located at 31° 17' 21" N.
				Lat./81° 17' 57"near the northeastern tip of Little St. Simons
				Island.
(g) Reserved.
(h) Hampton River. The boundary is from the
				point located at 31° 13' 5" N. Lat./81° 18' 7" W. Long. on the southern
				tip of Little St. Simons Island to the point located at 31° 12' 48" N.
				Lat./81° 18' 38" W. Long. on the northeastern tip of Sea Island.
(i) St.03 Simons Sound. The boundary is from
				the point located at 31° 08' 01" N. Lat./ 81° 23' 37" W. Long. at the
				base of the lighthouse on the southern tip of St. Simons Island to the point
				located at 31° 7' 12" N. Lat./81° 24' 35" W. Long. on the northern tip
				of Jekyll Island.
(j) St. Andrew
				Sound. The boundary is from the point located at 31° 0' 55" N. Lat./81°
				25' 48" W. Long. on the southern tip of Jekyll Island to the point located at
				30° 58' 38" N. Lat./81° 24' 49" W. Long. on the northern tip of Little
				Cumber land Is land.
(k) Cumber
				land Sound. The boundary is from the point located at 30° 42' 52" N.
				Lat./81° 27' 10" W. Long. on the southern tip of Cumberland Island to the
				point located at 30° 42' 21" N. Lat./ 81° 27' 15" W. Long. at the
				northern most point of Fort Clinch.