Saltwater License Required by eveyone

Saltwater Shrimping
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We plan on just deep-holeing this year and not bait for shrimp at all. Does everyone on board have to have a saltwater fishing license. My net thrower does not fish. Its my boat and my gear, and I have my saltwater license.

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yes

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Throwing a net is fishing. DNR will be in full force here Friday night and here on out. Watch your P’s and Q’s. 10$ for a license is a lot cheaper than what could happen.

Hydra-Sports 22 Bay Sport
225 Rude

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+1 MattR

$13 online and you print it out. Beats the *** out of the alternative. But, I have bad luck when it come to law enforcement… my lawyer doesn’t mind though!

j

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If you are shrimping over bait, all you need is for one person in the boat to have the license with tags on the pole. The other person does not even need to have a fishing license. BUT, if you put a flounder in the boat from one of your throws, you better poke a hole in his lip, have a fishing pole in the boat and everybody better have a salt water license.

“Do, or do not. There is no ‘try.’” – Jedi Master Yoda

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The following laws pertain to recreational saltwater fishing, shrimping, crabbing and shellfishing. Individuals (age 16 and older) harvesting marine resources, including finfish, oysters, clams, shrimp and crab must purchase an annual, temporary or 3 year Saltwater Recreational Fishing License - unless fishing on a licensed public fishing pier; fishing on a licensed charter vessel while under hire; using 3 or fewer drop nets, 3 or fewer fold up traps, or 3 or fewer handlines with no hooks and a single bait per line (chicken necking); or shrimp baiting (which requires a shrimp baiting license).

Rob
Triumph 17
Honda 75

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Do you need a shrimping license if you go from a dock or land? I went last year and had my saltwater fishing license, that was it. Never got stopped by DNR though.

we don’t need no stinkin’ boat

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Don’t know if it matters or not, but I don’t use poles either. Just a bait ball and a net.

we don’t need no stinkin’ boat

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Originally posted by JIsurfer

I went last year and had my saltwater fishing license, that was it. Never got stopped by DNR though.

Don’t know if it matters or not, but I don’t use poles either. Just a bait ball and a net.

if i were you, i’d consider myself very lucky and never try that again…

see restrictions #1 and #7 under shrimp baiting: http://www.dnr.sc.gov/regs/shrimpregs.html

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Ok, so I need a license. But how does #7 pertain to me? I don’t have anything to put a tag on. The law says a tag for every 10 poles. I don’t use poles, don’t have enough stuff to do all that.

we don’t need no stinkin’ boat

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Just talked to DNR, they said you have to have a baiting license and at least one pole. This is completely contrary to what I saw all last year. Nobody I saw going from the shore at several different locations didn’t have poles. Oh well, guess I dodged a bullet, which never happens for me.

we don’t need no stinkin’ boat

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#7 says if shrimping from a fixed structure, you must have the permission of the landowner and display at least one of the tags.

so… if there’s no dock, you’d need to place at least one pole with a tag on it to be legal.

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you were posting while i was- maybe you should’ve been buying lottery tickets last shrimp season!

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quote:
Originally posted by JIsurfer But how does #7 pertain to me? I don't have anything to put a tag on.

interesting point, regs don’t directly address it but do seem to imply you have to display at least one tag on something.

Heck, you could just get a 2’ piece of PVC at Lowes/HD, put a tag on it, and stick in the mud next to where you’re throwing. Kind of stupid maybe, but at least then you meet the intent and letter of the law.

Angler 204 FX
Yamaha 150

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Originally posted by JIsurfer

This is completely contrary to what I saw all last year

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I wouldn’t call it contrary…like barbawang said, I would say those people just got lucky…
and I bet if you just had something with one tag on it on the land or dock you were shrimping from you would be ok…the intent is to have baiters licensed, not to find a way around buying one…

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Yeah, that’s fine, don’t have a problem with that at all. What was funny, is that I even talked to a DNR officer while shrimping last year. They didn’t say a thing to me. Glad I called, just to make sure.

we don’t need no stinkin’ boat

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$25 Is a small price to pay for your fishery.

196 KEY WEST BAY REEF
150 YAMMIE