South Carolina General Assembly
120th Session, 2013-2014

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Bill 3571


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A BILL

TO AMEND SECTION 50-13-665, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO BAIT THAT MAY BE USED WITH TROTLINES, SET HOOKS, AND JUGS, SO AS TO REVISE THE SIZE OF HOOKS THAT MAY BE USED TO FISH ALONG CERTAIN RIVERS.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION    1.    Section 50-13-665 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 114 of 2012, is further amended to read:

""Section 50-13-665.    (A)    Except as provided in subsections (B) and (C), and the bait listed below, no other bait may be used with trotlines, set hooks, and jugs:

(1)    soap;

(2)    dough balls;

(3)    nongame fish or bream cut into two or more equal parts;

(4)    shrimp;

(5)    meat scraps which may not include insects, worms, or other invertebrates;

(6)    grapes.

(B)    Notwithstanding another provision of law, on the Black, Edisto, Great Pee Dee (including the navigable oxbows and sloughs), Little Pee Dee (including the navigable oxbows and sloughs), Lumber, Lynches (including Clarks, Mill, and Muddy Creeks), Sampit, and Waccamaw Rivers, live nongame fish and live bream may be used with single-barbed set hooks that have a shank-to-point gap of one and three-sixteenths fifteen-sixteenths inches or greater. However, it is unlawful for a person to have in possession more than the lawful creel limit of bream while fishing with nongame devices on these rivers.

(C)    Live nongame fish and live bream may be used on a trotline having not more than twenty hooks that have a shank-to-point gap of one and three-sixteenths fifteen-sixteenths inches or greater on the Black, Great Pee Dee (including the navigable oxbows and sloughs), Little Pee Dee (including the navigable oxbows and sloughs), Lumber, Lynches (including Clarks, Mill, and Muddy Creeks) and Waccamaw Rivers. However, it is unlawful for a person to have in possession more than the lawful creel limit of bream while fishing with nongame devices on these rivers.

(D)    A person violating the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than thirty days."

SECTION    2.    This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.

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