Texas Parks and Wildlife Code

§ 77.063 — GENERAL LIMITATION ON NETS

PW § 77.063Title 5. WILDLIFE AND PLANT CONSERVATION · Part D. CRUSTACEANS AND MOLLUSKS · Ch. 77. SHRIMP · Art. D. SHRIMPING IN OUTSIDE WATER

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(a)Repealed by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1256, Sec. 130, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.

(b)When restrictions are imposed on either or both the size and number of main trawls, no person may use a try net in outside water exceeding 21 feet in width as measured along an uninterrupted corkline from leading tip of door to leading tip of door and having doors or boards that exceed 450 square inches each or a beam trawl exceeding 10 feet in width as measured along the beam of a beam trawl in its fully extended position.

(c)This section does not apply to the taking of sea bobs.

Legislative history

Acts 1975, 64th Leg., p. 1405, ch. 545, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1975. Amended by Acts 1979, 66th Leg., p. 1092, ch. 511, Sec. 1, eff. June 11, 1979; Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1256, Sec. 130, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.