- (A) No more than four hundred hooks may be attached to a single commercially fished trotline. A trotline must not be attached to another trotline or to the support or float of another trotline. A trotline must not be longer than two thousand feet.
- (B) April first to October first a trotline is not permitted in waters in this State one hour after official sunrise to one hour before official sunset unless the trotline is sunk to the bottom or to a minimum depth of four feet below the water surface. October second to March thirty-first trotlines may be left in the water twenty-four hours a day at any depth.
- (C) A trotline must not be placed within one hundred feet of the mouth of a tributary stream.
- (D) A trotline, cable, line, or any other device used for support may not extend more than halfway across a stream or body of water.
- (E) A trotline or any part of it may not remain in the waters of this State more than twenty-four hours without inspection and removal of the fish taken on it.
- (F) A trotline must not be placed within two hundred yards of a manmade structure on Lakes Marion and Moultrie nor placed in the Diversion Canal connecting Lakes Marion and Moultrie.
- (G) Trotline hooks used in Lakes Marion and Moultrie and the upper reach of the Santee River must have a gap or clearance between point and shank no greater than seven-sixteenths inch.
- (H) Stainless steel hooks must not be used on a trotline.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 28-616.1; 1967 (55) 342; 1981 Act No. 170, Section 1; 1992 Act No. 316, Section 6; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1263; 2000 Act No. 245, Section 17; 1976 Code Section 50-13-1180; 2012 Act No. 114, Section 4, eff July 1, 2012.
Editor's Note
Prior Laws: Former Section 50-13-650 was entitled "Use of nets and seines in Savannah River" and was derived from 1962 Code Section 28-616.1; 1967 (55) 342; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1263; 2000 Act No. 245, Section 17.
Effect of Amendment
The 2012 amendment renumbered and rewrote the section.