PA-13-2009
PROCLAMATION

RE: SHELLFISH POLLUTED AREA

Dr. Louis B. Daniel III, Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, upon the recommendation of Jeffrey P. Engel, M.D., State Health Director, Department of Health and Human Services, hereby announces that effective at sunrise, Wednesday, April 1, 2009, the following privately controlled shellfish bottoms as indicated below are closed to the harvest of oysters, clams and mussels:

No person shall take or attempt to take any oysters, clams or mussels or possess, sell or offer for sale any oysters, clams or mussels taken from the following privately controlled shellfish bottoms:

 

Name

Location

Number

PENDER COUNTY

 

 

Robert W. Hudson

Waters Bay

8403

Gregory Edens

Stump Sound

414

Jeffrey T. Coward

BC Bay Topsail Sound

9613

Jerry Edens

Simmons Bay

282

Robert M. Forand & Gregory Eden Sr.

Waters Bay

8402 A & B

Alton Batts

Topsail Sound

440 & 770

Allen Katalinic & Ronnie Ottaway

Stump Sound

866

Richard D. Thomas

Waters Bay

432

William F. Moller

Topsail Sound

62-75

Jeffrey Lynn Warren

Sears Landing Bay

539

Larry J. Batson

Deep Creek Waters Bay

614-222

Samuel J. Corbett III

Topsail Sound

8921, 9706

Thomas Ray Todd

Topsail Sound

8910

Willie Bryan Edens

Stump Sound

749

Burl J. Sniff

Topsail Sound

538

Dennis Nicks

Topsail Sound

9707

Ronald Sheffield

Topsail Sound

1194059

Hiram Guedalia, Jerry Edens

Waters Bay

164

Michael Keith Ramsey

Topsail Sound

9810

Waymoth Batts

Waters Bay

8804

 

 

 

ONSLOW COUNTY

 

 

Joseph D. Sewell Sr.

White Oak

344-A

Tony Grant

Alligator Bay

328

 

ONSLOW COUNTY

 

 

Fred T. Hardison Jr.

Stump Sound

2567

George Lowe

Stump Sound

336

James B. Swartzenberg

Stump Sound

334, 425

Victor P. Bell

Britton Bay – Bear Creek

2101

Rufus E. Murray

White Oak River

9518

Thurman Oscar Davis

Stump Sound

2001

Donald C. Thompson

Fullard Creek

35-C-95

Matthew Padgett

Reds Bay

641

Robert A. Jenkins

Chadwick Bay

1-C-89

Timmy Edens

New River

9109

Joseph M. Moseley

Stump Sound

385

Douglas E. Mayer & James F. Garrity

Stump Sound

630, 8709, 906461

James A. Yopp

Charles Creek

4-C-89

Roy M. Prescott

New River

879, 10-C-91

Lonnie Thomas Everett Jr.

Mush Pot Creek

279

Earl M. Yopp

Sneads Creek

9304

Billy Ray Sanderford

Stone Bay

744-746-751

James Robert English

New River

9404

William E. Parker

Turkey Creek

155

Billy Ray Adams

Stump Sound

195

Raymond B. Howard

Sadfords Bay & Dixon Point

631-642

Bernise Rice

Stump Sound

194, 219, 398

 

 

 

CARTERET COUNTY

 

 

Kevin Bradley Lawrence

North River

647

Larry G. Kellum

North River

477

Jeffery Mayo Judy

North River

850

Kevin Bradley Lawrence

Cedar Island Bay

797

Raymond T. Graham Jr.

Newport River

448

Raymond R. Gray Jr.

Newport River

887

James Thurman Horne

Nelson Bay

9301

Perry A. Bayer

Newport River

9207

Stevenson L. Weeks

Newport River

492

Walter R. Bowker Jr.

Newport River

15-66A

Charles M. Willis

Jarrett Bay

857, 347, 561

Charles Jones & David Jones

Middens Creek

570-B

Ronnie Willis

Newport River

9203

Aron Styron III

Cedar Island Bay

592

Julian Howard Fulcher Jr.

North River

504

James Robert Stroud

North River, Goose Bay

9902

Robert Balance

Newport River

522A

 

 

 

HYDE COUNTY

 

 

William S. Dudley III & Susan L. Dudley

Oyster Creek

18-C-92

DARE COUNTY

 

 

Vicki Basnight

Pamlico Sound

1226208

GENERAL INFORMATION:

A. This proclamation is issued under the authority of N.C.G.S. 113-170.4; 113-170.5; 113-182; 113-221.1; 143B-289.52 and N.C. Marine Fisheries Rules 15A NCAC 3H .0103, 3K .0101 and .0104.

B. It is unlawful to violate the provisions of any proclamation issued by the Fisheries Director under his delegated authority pursuant to N.C. Marine Fisheries Rule15A NCAC 3H .0103.

C. This action is being taken to protect public health and is based on polluted shellfish being relayed on these leases under the Shellfish Management Program of the Division of Marine Fisheries.

D. The shellfish leases listed herein which will contain shellfish relayed from polluted areas must be posted with signs provided by the Division of Marine Fisheries for the closure period indicated.

E. These leases and/or shellfish bottoms will not reopen until recommended by the Division of Environmental Health and under no circumstances prior to June 1, 2009.

March 31, 2009
3:40 p.m.
PA-13