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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A<span style="color:#0A0A0A">ttention Commercial Otter Trawlers in Narragansett Bay<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0A0A0A">Please be aware that </span>
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">regulations r<span style="color:#0A0A0A">egarding
</span>otter trawling and <span style="color:#0A0A0A">minimum mesh size </span>requirements
<span style="color:#0A0A0A">in </span>portions of <span style="color:#0A0A0A">Narragansett Bay
</span>will be in effect as of November 1<sup>st</sup> (annually) These regulations are summarized as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0A0A0A">No person shall utilize an otter trawl in the following areas between November 1 through February 28 annually, that has a mesh size which measures less than six (6) inches stretched mesh (measured inside
knot to inside knot) in the following areas:</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I<span style="color:#0A0A0A">n Narragansett Bay north of a line extending from the easternmost extension of Carrier Pier in North Kingstown to Conanicut Pt. in Jamestown, thence to the tips of the T Pier on Prudence
Island to Carr's Point in Portsmouth</span>; and</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.25pt;margin-left:.75in;line-height:12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:#FEFEFE">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">In <span style="color:#0A0A0A">the Sakonnet River north of a line from Sachuest Pt. in Newport to Sakonnet Point in Little Compton.</span></span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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