Sportfishing and Boating Newspaper in Ocean City, Maryland

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Striped Bass Creel Reduced to 1 per person

Saturday, January 3, 2015

The Secretary of Maryland Department of Natural Resources, pursuant to Code of Maryland Regulation 08.02.15.12H, announces the modification of the recreational creel limit for striped bass in the State waters of the Atlantic Ocean, its coastal bays, and their tributaries. Effective 12:01 a.m. Monday, January 5, 2015, a person may not take or possess more than one striped bass per day from those waters. All other rules remain the same.