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Old 04-29-2009, 10:21 AM   #18
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Originally Posted by big jay View Post
Couple of clarifications.

In the Charter/headboat Cat. you can only take a sub 73" fish with a paying charter on board. If I'm just out fishing with my Dad, shorts have to be released.

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I was curious about this, so I called NMFS. They said under the Headboat Cat. you could keep a sub-legal fish (per rec. cat) WITHOUT a charter on board, as long as there is a Licensed Captain on board......

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