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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">2024 Commercial Striped Bass Tag Reports and Unused Tags<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Please be reminded that RI dealers who received commercial striped bass tags in 2024
<b><i><u>must</u></i></b> return all unused tags and tag reports to DEM no later than January 1, 2025. <b><u>Failure to return all unused tags and tag reports may result in the dealer being ineligible to receive tags in 2025</u></b>, pursuant to regulations
(<a href="https://rules.sos.ri.gov/regulations/part/250-90-00-3"><span style="color:#0563C1">Part 3 – Finfish</span></a>, section 3.8.2(E)).<b> </b>Unused 2024 RI commercial striped bass tags and reports for 2024 tags may be returned by mail, or dropped off
during business hours 8:30-4 Monday-Friday, to one of the following DEM offices:<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Division of Marine Fisheries<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">3 Fort Wetherill Road<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Jamestown, RI 02835<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Division of Coastal Resources<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">301 Great Island Road<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Narragansett, RI 02882<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Please note that State Offices WILL BE CLOSED on December 25, 2024, and January 1, 2025</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">. Tagging
reports may also be submitted via email (<a href="mailto:nicole.lengyel@dem.ri.gov"><span style="color:#0563C1">nicole.lengyel@dem.ri.gov</span></a>) or fax (f: 401-423-1925). Anyone with questions should contact the Division of Marine Fisheries at 401-423-1923.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Harlow Solid Italic"">James O’Connor
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Superintendent of State Piers
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">RI Department of Environmental Management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Division of Coastal Resources
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">(401) 782-4492<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Cell (401) 328-6958<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="mailto:James.Oconnor@dem.ri.gov">James.Oconnor@dem.ri.gov</a>
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