Shrimp
Season to Close in Zone 3
Posted:
7/13/06
The 2006
spring inshore shrimp season in Shrimp Management Zone 3 will
close on Monday, July 17, at 6 a.m. except for that portion
of the Calcasieu Ship Channel originating at a line between
Channel Markers 85 and 86 southward to a point originating
along the inside/outside shrimp line at Calcasieu Pass as
described in LA R.S.56:495(A) and including East Pass from
its origin at the Calcasieu Ship Channel to the south end
of Calcasieu Lake and West Pass from its origin at the Calcasieu
Ship Channel to the south end of West Cove which will close
on Wednesday, July 26, at 6 a.m.
Zone 3
is that portion of Louisiana's inside waters from the western
shore of Vermilion Bay and Southwest Pass at Marsh Island
to the Louisiana-Texas state line. State territorial waters
south of the Inside/Outside shrimp line, as described in LA
R.S.56:495, will remain open to shrimping.
The closure
was announced today by Louisiana Department of Wildlife and
Fisheries Secretary Dwight Landreneau and was based on recommendations
made by LDWF Marine Fisheries Division biologists.
The number,
distribution and percentage of small juvenile white shrimp
within the area to be closed has progressively increased in
recent weeks. Analysis of current LDWF shrimp trawl sampling
data indicates substantial population increases this week
and these waters are being closed to protect these developing
shrimp.
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