Section 299.817. Area closed to commercial fishing; Saginaw bay and Lake Huron.

To establish an area seasonally   closed  to  commercial  fishing operations, the provisions of section 6 of Act No. 84 of the  Public   Acts of 1929, as amended, being S308.6 of         the       Michigan           Compiled               Laws,       are extended to include the following regulation:

(a)   It shall be unlawful from June 10 to September 10, inclusive, to place or use any gill or entrapment net or to engage in commercial fishing operations in water of a depth less than 18 feet along that portion of the Saginaw bay-Lake Huron shore lying between Harrisville on the north and AuGres Point on the south, more particularly described-- the south line of section 12, T26N, R9E, extended east into the waters of Lake Huron near Harrisville shall constitute the northern boundary, and a line extended east from the most southerly part of section 6, T18N,  R7E,  shall constitute the southern boundary.

(b)    This regulation shall in no way change existing special provisions regulating commercial fishing in bays and harbors.

History: 1979 AC.