Shrimp
Season Closes in Zone 2
Posted:
6/11/04
The spring inshore
shrimp season in Shrimp Management Zone 2 will close on
Wednesday, June 16, 2004 at 6 a.m. This closure includes all
Louisiana inside waters from the eastern shore of South Pass
of the Mississippi River to the western shore of Vermilion
Bay and Southwest Pass at Marsh Island.
The closure, announced
today by Louisiana Department of Wildlife and
Fisheries (LDWF) Secretary Dwight Landreneau, was based on
recommendations made by LDWF Marine Fisheries Division biologists.
The numbers, distribution
and percentage of small white shrimp in these areas have increased
substantially in the past week. The region is being closed
to protect these developing shrimp.
Zones 1 and 3 will
remain open to shrimping until further notice. State territorial
waters south of the Inside/Outside shrimp line, as described
in Louisiana R.S.56:495, will also remain open to shrimping.
For more
information, contact Martin Bourgeois at 225/765-2401 or bourgeois_mj@wlf.state.la.us.
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