South Carolina Code of Regulations › Chapter 123 - DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES › Article 2 - MARINE RESOURCES DIVISION › Section 123-22 - Gill Nets

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 6, June 28, 2024
Gill nets are lawful in the following zone established within
				an enclosed polygon with a linear boundary defined as follows, and with all
				named features referencing NOAA Navigational Chart 11534 (Myrtle Grove Sound
				and Cape Fear River to Casino Creek), 40th Edition., September 2019; and also
				referencing USGS Little River, South Carolina - North Carolina 7.5-minute
				series Quadrangle, 1:24,000 scale, 2020.
Starting from a point on the western shoreline of Bird Island
				facing Little River, with latitude 33.85366° N, longitude 078.54396° W;
				thence following a straight line northwesterly to a point on Goat Island with
				latitude 33.85971° N, longitude 078.55082° W; thence following the
				shoreline ("shoreline" herein defined as the line of Mean High Water excluding
				the shorelines of un-named tributaries) west and southwesterly to a point at
				the mouth of Horse Ford Creek with latitude 33.85834° N, longitude
				078.56444° W; thence following a straight line across the mouth Horse Ford
				Creek to a point on Mink Island with latitude 33.85846° N, longitude
				078.56541° W; thence following the shoreline west then northwesterly to a
				point with latitude 33.86017° N, longitude 078.56966° W; thence
				following a straight line to a point with latitude 33.86034° N, longitude
				078.56989° W; thence following the shoreline in a northerly direction to a
				point at the northern tip of Mink Island on the Intracoastal Waterway with
				latitude 33.86765° N, longitude 078.57158° W; thence following a
				straight line across Little River to a point on the eastern tip of Little River
				Neck with latitude 33.86999° N, longitude 078.57405° W; thence
				following the shoreline in a south-southwesterly direction to point with
				latitude 33.86498° N, longitude 078.57583° W; thence following the
				shoreline in a south-southeasterly direction to a point with latitude
				33.86186° N, longitude 078.57464° W; thence following a straight line
				to a point on the northern tip of
The Battery Island with latitude 33.86140° N, longitude
				078.57469° W; thence following the shoreline to a point on the southeastern
				tip of The Battery Island with latitude 33.85757° N, longitude
				078.57225° W; thence following a straight line across the mouth of Dunn
				Sound Creek to a point with latitude 33.85634° N, longitude 078.57031°
				W; thence following the shoreline in a southeasterly direction to a point on
				the mouth of Sheephead Creek with latitude 33.85522° N, longitude
				078.56852° W; thence following a straight line across the mouth of
				Sheephead Creek to a point with latitude 33.85492° N, longitude
				078.56809° W; thence following the shoreline in a westerly direction to
				point with latitude 33.85484° N, longitude 078.55635° W; thence
				following the shoreline in a southeasterly direction to a point with latitude
				33.85142° N, longitude 078.55311° W; thence following a straight line
				across Little River to the starting point on Bird Island with latitude
				33.85366° N, longitude 078.54396° W.