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COMMERCIAL FISHING FOR SMALL COASTAL SHARKS CLOSES
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COMMERCIAL FISHING FOR SMALL COASTAL SHARKS CLOSES IN LOUISIANA WATERS

Commercial fishing for small coastal sharks (bonnethead shark, Atlantic sharpnose shark, blacknose shark, finetooth shark) closes in Louisiana waters at 11:30 p.m. on March 18, 2004 and will remain closed through July 1, 2004. Federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico will also be closed for commercial harvest of small coastal sharks during the same time period.

Effective with this closure, no person shall commercially harvest, purchase, exchange, barter, trade, sell or attempt to purchase, exchange, barter, trade or sell small coastal sharks or fins thereof whether taken from within or with out Louisiana territorial waters.

The decision was made by Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Secretary Dwight Landreneau, as authorized by the state Wildlife and Fisheries Commission. Landreneau acted following notification by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) of changes to the season in federal waters.

NMFS determined that the small coastal shark commercial fishery subquota for the first semiannual fishing season has been reached and action is necessary to ensure that the semiannual quota for small coastal sharks for the period July 1 through December 31, 2004, is not exceeded.
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