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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

 
Sec. 1. 12 MRSA §6001, sub-§6, as enacted by PL 1977, c. 661, §5, is
amended to read:

 
6. Coastal waters. "Coastal waters" means all waters of the
State within the rise and fall of the tide and within the marine
limits of the jurisdiction of the State out to the limits of the
exclusive economic zone as shown on the most recently published
Federal Government nautical chart, but it does not include areas
above any fishway or dam when the fishway or dam is the dividing
line between tidewater and fresh water.

 
Sec. 2. 12 MRSA §6001, sub-§48-B is enacted to read:

 
48-B.__Territorial waters.__"Territorial waters" means all
waters of the State within the rise and fall of the tide seaward
to the 3-nautical-mile line as shown on the most recently
published Federal Government nautical chart, but does not include
areas above any fishway or dam when that fishway or dam is the
dividing line between tidewater and fresh water.

 
Sec. 3. 12 MRSA §6439, as amended by PL 1985, c. 268, §5, is
further amended to read:

 
§6439. Areas of limited lobster fishing

 
It shall be is unlawful to have on any trawl more than 3
lobster traps in any of the coastal waters in the following
areas:

 
1. West of Cape Elizabeth and east of Kittery. Westerly of a
line drawn from the active lighthouse at Two Lights in Cape
Elizabeth to through the Hue and Cry Buoy and, continuing in a
straight line, to the point of intersection with the 3-nautical-
mile line, and northerly and easterly of a line running between
the Kitts Rocks Whistle Buoy and the West Sister Buoy and
extending westerly to the New Hampshire border, and from the West
Sister Buoy to the Murray Rock Buoy and thence to and through the
lighthouse on Boone Island and, continuing in a straight line, to
the boundary of the coastal waters within the jurisdiction of
this State point of intersection with the 3-nautical-mile line;

 
2. Between Pemaquid and Robinson's Points. Between the
following lines:

 
A. Beginning at a point 48 miles true north of the lighthouse on
Pemaquid Point, Lincoln County; thence true south through the
lighthouse to a point where that line intersects the
southeasterly boundary of the coastal waters


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