2017-2018 Texas Commercial Fishing Guide
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Commercial Bait-Shrimp Boats – Seasons, Limits and Gear Restrictions (Major Bays and Bait-Bays)
Location
Season (Dates)
Hours
Limits
Trawl Requirements
Major Bays and
Year-round
Aug. 15 – Mar. 31:
Bag: 200 pounds
Main Net:
Bait Bays
30 min. before
Size: No Limit
• No more than 1 net may be used at any one time as a main net.
sunrise to 30 min.
• Mesh Size: 6-1/2 inches over 5 stretched meshes
after sunset
Special Requirements:
• Trawl Size: Net Type II (see pg. 30) (Beam trawls used as the main trawl
Apr. 1 – Aug. 14:
Nov. 15 – Aug. 15: at
cannot exceed 25 feet in width.)
30 min. before
least 50% of the
• Approved TEDs ‡
are required (FEDERAL REGULATION).
sunrise to 30 min. onboard catch must be
after sunset
kept in a live condition.
Aug. 16 – Nov. 14: all
shrimp must have heads
attached.
Nueces County Laguna Madre Special Commercial Bait-Shrimping Regulations
• All year in the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway between markers 17 and 57 in the Laguna Madre in Nueces County, commercial bait-shrimp boats may take bait-shrimp
from 1 a.m. to 30 minutes before sunrise each day with a legal beam trawl only.
• It is UNLAWFUL for any person to take or attempt to take shrimp with a trawl at any other time or in any other place in the Laguna Madre in Nueces County north of a
line starting on the mainland at the most northeasterly point on the north side of the entrance of Whiteley Channel then proceeding in a straight line to the north end
of Pita Island; then continuing on a line to the southernmost point on the westerly most spoil island bordering the north side of the New Humble Channel (commonly
referred to as Hap’s Channel); then continuing on a line along the north edge of the New Humble Channel (commonly referred to as Hap’s Channel) to its junction with
the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway; then continuing on a straight line to the Nueces/Kleberg County line marker on Padre Island.
†
BRD means Bycatch Reduction Device
‡
TED means Turtle Excluder Device
INSIDE WATERS
256
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Commercial Bait-Shrimp Boats – Seasons, Limits and Gear Restrictions (Major Bays and Bait-Bays)
Location
Season (Dates)
Hours
Limits
Trawl Requirements
Major Bays and
Year-round
Aug. 15 – Mar. 31:
Bag: 200 pounds
Main Net:
Bait Bays
30 min. before
Size: No Limit
• No more than 1 net may be used at any one time as a main net.
sunrise to 30 min.
• Mesh Size: 6-1/2 inches over 5 stretched meshes
after sunset
Special Requirements:
• Trawl Size: Net Type II (see pg. 30) (Beam trawls used as the main trawl
Apr. 1 – Aug. 14:
Nov. 15 – Aug. 15: at
cannot exceed 25 feet in width.)
30 min. before
least 50% of the
• Approved TEDs ‡
are required (FEDERAL REGULATION).
sunrise to 30 min. onboard catch must be
after sunset
kept in a live condition.
Aug. 16 – Nov. 14: all
shrimp must have heads
attached.
Nueces County Laguna Madre Special Commercial Bait-Shrimping Regulations
• All year in the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway between markers 17 and 57 in the Laguna Madre in Nueces County, commercial bait-shrimp boats may take bait-shrimp
from 1 a.m. to 30 minutes before sunrise each day with a legal beam trawl only.
• It is UNLAWFUL for any person to take or attempt to take shrimp with a trawl at any other time or in any other place in the Laguna Madre in Nueces County north of a
line starting on the mainland at the most northeasterly point on the north side of the entrance of Whiteley Channel then proceeding in a straight line to the north end
of Pita Island; then continuing on a line to the southernmost point on the westerly most spoil island bordering the north side of the New Humble Channel (commonly
referred to as Hap’s Channel); then continuing on a line along the north edge of the New Humble Channel (commonly referred to as Hap’s Channel) to its junction with
the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway; then continuing on a straight line to the Nueces/Kleberg County line marker on Padre Island.
†
BRD means Bycatch Reduction Device
‡
TED means Turtle Excluder Device
INSIDE WATERS
256