Current through 2024 Legislative Session Act Chapter 531
Section 941 - Headboat/charter boat fishing permits; reporting requirements(a) If a fishery management plan approved by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce or Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission requires the landings of a finfish species by headboats and charter boats to be monitored, said finfish species, if caught on a headboat or charter boat, shall not be landed in this State unless the owner or operator of said boat has been issued a headboat/charter boat fishing permit. The Department shall not charge a fee for the headboat/charter boat fishing permit.(b) All headboat/charter boat fishing permit holders shall maintain a logbook, supplied by the Department, for those finfish species that have management plans which require landings to be monitored. Headboat/charter boat fishing permit holders shall forward copies of their logbook entries to the Department as prescribed by the Department. The logbooks shall contain, but not be limited to: (1) The headboat/charter boat fishing permit number; and(2) The number and/or weight, by species, of finfish landed on each date.(c) The Department may adopt, amend, modify or repeal rules and regulations to effectuate the policy and purpose of this section. 72 Del. Laws, c. 362, § 2.;