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<p class="xmsonormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">NOTICE</span></u></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" align="center" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:center"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Modification to possession limits and/or seasons for marine species regulated under quota</span></u></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Beginning 12:00AM on Sunday, August 15, 2021, the commercial possession limit for
<b><u>Summer Flounder</u></b> will be three-hundred (300) pounds per vessel per day for vessels with a Summer Flounder Exemption Certificate, until the next sub-period begins September 16, 2021 at one hundred (100) pounds per vessel per day. For vessels without
a Summer Flounder Exemption Certificate the commercial possession limit for <b><u>Summer Flounder</u></b> will be two hundred (200) pounds per vessel per day, until the next sub-period begins September 16, 2021 at one hundred (100) pounds per vessel per day.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="xmsonormal" style="color:#002060;margin-top:6.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Beginning 12:00AM on Sunday, August 15, 2021, the commercial
<b><u>Scup General Category</u></b> will be twenty-thousand (20,000) pounds per vessel per week, until the next sub-period begins October 1, 2021 at two-thousand (2,000) pounds per vessel per day.</span><o:p></o:p></li></ol>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0in"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Possession limits are subject to modification throughout the year; it is the responsibility of the licensed fisherman to comply with possession
limits and all such modifications.</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> Current commercial possession limits can be found by calling (401) 423-1920, or visiting the Marine Fisheries webpage at</span>
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