Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
Wildlife and Fisheries Commission
In accordance with the emergency provisions of R.S. 49:953(B) and R.S. 49:967 of the Administrative Procedure Act which allows the Wildlife and Fisheries Commission to use emergency procedures to set shrimp seasons and R.S. 56:497 which provides that the Wildlife and Fisheries Commission shall fix no less than two open seasons each year for all or parts of state inside waters and shall have the authority to open or close state outside waters, the Wildlife and Fisheries Commission does hereby set the 2006 Fall Shrimp Season in inside waters to open as follows:
Shrimp Management Zone 1, that portion of Louisiana inside waters from the Mississippi-Louisiana state line to the eastern shore of South Pass of the Mississippi River, to open at 12 noon August 21, 2006, and
That portion of Shrimp Management Zone 2 from the eastern shore of South Pass of the Mississippi River to the Atchafalaya River Ship Channel at Eugene Island as delineated by the Channel red buoy line, to open at 12 noon August 14, 2006.
That portion of Shrimp Management Zone 2 from the Atchafalaya River Ship Channel at Eugene Island as delineated by the Channel red buoy line to the western shore of Vermilion Bay and Southwest Pass at Marsh Island, to open at 12 noon August 21, 2006.
Shrimp Management Zone 3, that portion of state inside waters from the western shore of Vermilion Bay and Southwest Pass at Marsh Island to the Louisiana-Texas state line, to open at 12 noon August 21, 2006, and
The Commission also hereby sets the closing date for the 2006 Fall Shrimp Season in inside waters at official sunset December 18, 2006 except in the open waters of Breton and Chandeleur Sounds as described by the double-rig line (R.S. 56:495.1(A)2) which shall remain open until 6 a.m., March 31, 2007. The Commission also grants authority to the Secretary of the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries to change the closing dates if biological and technical data indicate the need to do so or if enforcement problems develop and to close and reopen all or parts of state inside and outside waters if significant numbers of small white shrimp are found in these waters.
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