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Species Ranges of Sizes Within Which Fish May Not Be Taken Maximum Daily Creel And Possession Limit (1) Genus micropterus (black bass) 0 — 24 inches 10 (2) Mountain trout 0 — 24 inches 8 (3) White bass 0 — 36 inches 15 (4) Striped bass 0 — 36 inches 15 (5) Striped white bass hybrids 0 — 36 inches 15 (6) Any one or combination of the species of bream or sunfish 0 — 10 inches 50 (7) Walleye 0 — 24 inches 15 (8) Sauger 0 — 24 inches 15 (9) Chain pickerel 0 — 24 inches 15 (10) Grass pickerel 0 — 12 inches 15 (11) Redfin pickerel 0 — 12 inches 15 (12) Black crappie 0 — 14 inches 30 (13) White crappie 0 — 14 inches 30 (14) American shad 0 — 30 inches 8 (15) Hickory shad 0 — 24 inches 8 (16) Amberjack 0 — 50 inches 5 (17) Atlantic croaker 0 — 10 inches 25 (18) Atlantic sturgeon 0 — 86 inches 1 (19) Black drum 0 — 36 inches 15 (20) Black sea bass 0 — 15 inches 15 (21) Blue marlin 3 (22) Bluefish 0 — 20 inches 15 (23) Cobia 0 — 40 inches 5 (24) Dolphin 0 — 24 inches 15 (25) Flounder (Paralicthys spp.) 0 — 15 inches 15 (26) Gag grouper 0 — 25 inches 5 (27) King mackerel 0 — 36 inches 5 (28) Red drum 0 — 36 inches 5 (29) Red porgy 0 — 20 inches 10 (30) Red snapper 0 — 25 inches 5 (31) Sailfish 3 (32) Sand tiger shark 0 — 140 inches 1 (33) Sharks 0 — 120 inches 2 (34) Sheepshead 0 — 20 inches 15 (35) Small sharks composite (Atlantic sharpnose, bonnethead, and spiny dogfish) 0 — 54 inches 4 (36) Spanish mackerel 0 — 20 inches 20 (37) Spot 0 — 10 inches 25 (38) Spotted sea trout 0 — 25 inches 15 (39) Tarpon 0 — 90 inches 1 (40) Tripletail 0 — 25 inches 5 (41) Weakfish 0 — 15 inches 15 (42) White marlin 3
History. Code 1933, § 45-713, enacted by Ga. L. 1977, p. 396, § 1; Ga. L. 1978, p. 816, § 50; Ga. L. 1986, p. 504, § 1; Ga. L. 1988, p. 552, § 1; Ga. L. 1989, p. 1552, § 4; Ga. L. 1990, p. 762, § 1; Ga. L. 1991, p. 94, § 27; Ga. L. 1992, p. 1636, § 2; Ga. L. 1995, p. 543, § 3; Ga. L. 1996, p. 980, § 4; Ga. L. 2012, p. 739, § 5/HB 869; Ga. L. 2021, p. 105, § 2-7/HB 362; Ga. L. 2022, p. 308, § 5/HB 1233.
The 2021 amendment, effective April 27, 2021, substituted “Genus micropterus (black bass)” for “Largemouth bass” in paragraph (a)(1).
The 2022 amendment, effective July 1, 2022, in the table in subsection (a), deleted former items (2) through (6), relating to Smallmouth bass, Shoal bass, Suwannee bass, Spotted bass or Kentucky bass, and Redeye bass or Coosa bass, and redesignated former items (7) through (47) as present items (2) through (42), respectively.
Code Commission notes.
Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2021, an inch symbol was deleted following “10” in paragraph (a)(1).
Administrative rules and regulations.
Creel and possession limits, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Rules of Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Resources Division, Fishing Regulations, § 391-4-3-.05.
Structure Georgia Code
Article 1 - General Provisions
§ 27-4-1. Salt-Water and Fresh-Water Demarcation Line
§ 27-4-3. Right to Take Shellfish From Stream or Estuary
§ 27-4-4. Unlawful Dumping; Recovery of Damages
§ 27-4-5. Methods for Taking Fish Generally
§ 27-4-6. Use of Minnow Seines or Traps
§ 27-4-7. Use of Gill Nets; Seizure of Illegal Nets
§ 27-4-8. Unlawful Devices or Substances
§ 27-4-10. Creel and Possession Limits; Size Restrictions