Current through 2024-51, December 18, 2024
Section 188-50-01 - Definitions1. "Coastal Sharks" means for the purpose of these regulations the following species of shark caught in Maine's territorial waters: sand tiger, bigeye, whale, basking, white, dusky, bignose, Galapagos, night, reef, narrowtooth, Caribbean sharpnose, smalltail, silky, Atlantic angel, longfin mako, bigeye thresher, sharpnose sevengill, bluntnose sixgill, sandbar, bigeye sixgill, and North Atlantic shortfin mako sharks.2. "Finning" means the act of taking a spiny dogfish, porbeagle or other coastal shark, removing the fins, and returning the remainder of the spiny dogfish, porbeagle or other coastal shark to the sea. 3. "Spiny dogfish" means the genus and species Squalus acanthias.4. "Porbeagle shark" means the genus and species Lamna nasus,13-188 C.M.R. ch. 50, § 01