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<p class="xmsonormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif">NOTICE - Modification to possession limits and/or seasons for marine species regulated under quota</span></u></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif">Beginning 12:00AM on Sunday, June 4, 2023, the possession limit for
<b><u>Summer Flounder</u> </b>for<b> </b>vessels <b><i>with</i></b> a Summer Flounder Exemption Certificate will be four hundred (400) pounds per vessel per day; until the next sub-period begins September 16, 2023 at five hundred (500) pounds per vessel per
 day.&nbsp; The possession limit for those <b><i>without</i></b> a Summer Flounder Exemption Certificate remains at two hundred (200) pounds per vessel per day.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif">Beginning 12:00AM on Sunday, June 4, 2023, the commercial possession limit for
<b><u>Black Sea Bass</u></b> will be seventy-five (75) pounds per vessel per day; until the next sub-period begins July 1 at fifty (50) pounds per vessel per day;</span>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif">the possession limit for Black Sea Bass for permitted
<b>Summer/Fall Aggregate Program participants</b> is three hundred seventy five (375) pounds per vessel per week (equal to five (5) times the daily limit of seventy five (75) pounds) until the next sub-period begins July 1 at two hundred fifty (250) pounds
 per vessel per week.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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 licensed fisherman to comply with possession limits and all such modifications.</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">&nbsp; Current commercial possession limits can be found by
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