In addition to other provisions of law, the following provisions govern seasons, times, methods, equipment, size limits, and take limits in commercial fishing for shad in the waters of this State specified below:
(a) Black River, Great Pee Dee River, Little Pee Dee River, Lynches River, Waccamaw River from Big Bull Creek to Winyah Bay, Winyah Bay, and all tributaries and distributaries thereto as follows:
(i) Pee Dee River and tributaries above U.S. Highway 701 and Black River:
(1) Season: January 15 through April 15;
(2) Times: noon Monday through noon Saturday;
(3) Methods and equipment: Any lawful method and equipment;
(4) Size and take limits: No limits.
(ii) Remainder of Winyah Bay system including all of Big Bull Creek and Waccamaw River with tributaries below the entrance of Big Bull Creek:
(1) Season: January 15 through April 1;
(2) Times: Monday noon to Saturday noon, local time;
(3) Methods and equipment: No restriction provided drift nets of not more than nine hundred feet in length are allowed in Waccamaw River between Butler Island and U.S. Highway 17 during lawful times;
(4) Size and take limits: No limits.
(b) Santee River below Wilson Dam including the Rediversion Canal below St. Stephen Dam, North Santee River and Bay, South Santee River, and all tributaries and distributaries thereto as follows:
(i) Rediversion Canal from St. Stephen Dam seaward to the seaward terminus of the northern dike of the Rediversion Canal:
Season: No open season;
(ii) Rediversion Canal from the seaward terminus of the northern dike of the Rediversion Canal seaward to Santee River:
(1) Season: January 15 through April 15;
(2) Times: 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. local time, Tuesday and Thursday;
(3) Methods and equipment: Any lawful method and equipment;
(4) Size and take limits: No limits.
(iii) Wilson Dam seaward to U.S. Highway 52 bridge:
Season: No open season.
(iv) U.S. Highway 52 bridge seaward to S.C. Highway 41 bridge:
(1) Season: January 15 through April 15;
(2) Times: 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. local time, Tuesday and Thursday;
(3) Methods and equipment: Any lawful method and equipment;
(4) Size and take limits: No limits.
(v) S.C. Highway 41 bridge seaward:
(1) Season: January 15 through March 15;
(2) Times: Monday noon to Saturday noon, local time;
(3) Methods and equipment: Any lawful method and equipment;
(4) Size and take limits: No limits.
(c) Wando River and Cooper River seaward to the U.S. Highway 17 bridges, Charleston Harbor, Ashley River, and all tributaries and distributaries thereto as follows:
(i) Tailrace Canal from Wadboo Creek to the Jefferies Power Plant:
Season: No open season.
(ii) Cooper River from Wadboo Creek to U.S. Highway 17:
Season: No open season.
(iii) Ashley River seaward to its confluence with Popper Dam Creek:
(1) Season: No open season;
(2) Reserved
(3) Reserved
(4) Reserved
(iv) Remainder of the Charleston Harbor system:
(1) Season: No open season;
(2) Reserved
(3) Reserved
(4) Reserved
(d) Edisto River Estuary, Edisto River, North and South Branches (Forks) of the Edisto River, and all tributaries and distributaries thereto as follows:
(i) Above U.S. Highway 15 bridge:
(1) Season: February 1 through March 30;
(2) Times: Tuesday noon to Saturday noon, local time;
(3) Methods and equipment: Any lawful method and equipment;
(4) Size and take limits: No limits.
(ii) Seaward of U.S. Highway 15 bridge and above U.S. Highway 17 bridge:
(1) Season: February 1 through March 30;
(2) Times: Tuesday noon to Saturday noon, local time;
(3) Methods and equipment: Any lawful method and equipment;
(4) Size and take limits: No limits.
(iii) Seaward of U.S. Highway 17 bridge:
(1) Season: February 1 through March 30;
(2) Times: Wednesday noon to Friday midnight, local time;
(3) Methods and equipment: Any lawful method and equipment;
(4) Size and take limits: No limits.
(e) Ashepoo River and all tributaries and distributaries thereto as follows:
(1) Season: No open season;
(2) Reserved
(3) Reserved
(4) Reserved
(f) Combahee River and all tributaries and distributaries thereto as follows:
(i) Tributaries and distributaries, except main stems of Salkehatchie Rivers:
Season: No open season.
(ii) Main river including main stems of Salkehatchie Rivers:
(1) Season: February 1 through March 15;
(2) Times: For anchored nets, Tuesday noon to Friday noon, local time; for driftnets, Monday noon to Saturday noon, local time;
(3) Methods and equipment: Any lawful method and equipment;
(4) Size and take limits: No limits.
(g) Coosawhatchie River and all tributaries and distributaries thereto as follows:
Season: No open season.
(h) South Carolina portions of Savannah River and all tributaries and distributaries thereto as follows:
(i) Main river below U. S. Highway 301 and above U. S. Interstate Highway 95:
(1) Season: January 1 through April 15;
(2) Times: 7:00 a.m. Wednesday to 7:00 p.m. Saturday, local time;
(3) Methods and equipment: Any lawful method and equipment;
(4) Size and take limits: No limits.
(ii) Tributaries and distributaries above U.S. Interstate Highway 95 bridge:
Season: No open season.
(iii) Seaward of U.S. Interstate Highway 95 bridge.
(1) Season: January 1 through March 31. Taking or attempting to take shad with anchored nets is prohibited at all times in the Savannah River's Little Back River, Back River and the north channel of the Savannah River downstream from the New Savannah Cut;
(2) Times: 7:00 a.m. Tuesday to 7:00 p.m. Friday, local time;
(3) Methods and equipment: Any lawful method and equipment;
(4) Size and take limits: No limits.
(i) Atlantic Ocean territorial sea as follows:
(1) Season: No open season;
(2) Reserved
(3) Reserved
(4) Reserved
(j) Lake Moultrie, Lake Marion, Diversion Canal, Intake Canal of Rediversion Canal, and all tributaries and distributaries thereto as follows:
(1) Season: No closed season;
(2) Times: No restrictions;
(3) Methods and equipment: Cast net and lift net for bait;
(4) Size and take limits: Two hundred fifty pounds per boat per day combined catch of herring and shad.
HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 342, Section 33; 2004 Act No. 252, Section 1; 2012 Act No. 249, Section 4, eff June 18, 2012.
Effect of Amendment
The 2012 amendment rewrote the section.
Structure South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 50 - Fish, Game and Watercraft
Chapter 5 - Marine Resources Act
Section 50-5-10. Citation of chapter.
Section 50-5-17. Flounder Population Study Program.
Section 50-5-20. Jurisdiction of Department of Natural Resources.
Section 50-5-25. Powers and duties; deposit of revenues.
Section 50-5-30. Promulgation of regulations; civil offenses; penalties; suspension of permit.
Section 50-5-40. Unauthorized tagging or marking and releasing of saltwater fish; penalty.
Section 50-5-50. Prosecutions for violations of chapter.
Section 50-5-60. Conspiracy to violate provision of chapter.
Section 50-5-65. Seizure and disposition of contraband; separate offense defined.
Section 50-5-70. Sale of confiscated device; redemption by owner.
Section 50-5-75. Common areas for taking of fish.
Section 50-5-80. Dividing line between salt and fresh water on rivers.
Section 50-5-85. General Trawling Zone; subzones.
Section 50-5-95. Unlawful taking of saltwater fish; penalty.
Section 50-5-100. Knowingly obtaining saltwater fishery product taken or sold unlawfully.
Section 50-5-105. Unlawful activities affecting others; penalty.
Section 50-5-110. Use of poison, explosive, or bang stick to take marine resources; penalty.
Section 50-5-115. Responsibility for determining location of commercial fishing vessel.
Section 50-5-125. Use of vessel within 300 feet of public fishing pier; penalty.
Section 50-5-305. Requirements for obtaining resident license; penalty.
Section 50-5-310. Commercial saltwater fishing license for nonresidents; fee; striker exception.
Section 50-5-315. Saltwater fishing without a license prohibited; penalty.
Section 50-5-320. State Shellfish Ground licenses; fees.
Section 50-5-335. Channel net licenses; restrictions.
Section 50-5-345. Commercial license a condition of permit; exceptions; revocation.
Section 50-5-355. Bait dealer licenses; fees; inspections; penalties.
Section 50-5-367. Sale, offer, or purchase of shrimp taken over bait; penalty.
Section 50-5-375. Records of wholesale seafood dealers; inspection by department; penalties.
Section 50-5-385. Expiration of licenses and permits.
Section 50-5-390. Denial of or limitations on nonresident licenses.
Section 50-5-500. Use of nets; penalties.
Section 50-5-505. Net use requirements and restrictions; mariculture impoundment net use permit.
Section 50-5-520. Channel net violations; forfeiture of license; seizure of equipment.
Section 50-5-525. Unlawful deployment of net; penalty.
Section 50-5-540. Use of seine or gill net in state park; shrimp net exception.
Section 50-5-545. Commercial blue crab traps; escape vent requirements; peeler trap exemption.
Section 50-5-560. Blue crab traps on Cooper River.
Section 50-5-565. Time restrictions for placement of commercial traps.
Section 50-5-570. Use of live bait on lines with more than three hooks.
Section 50-5-580. Gigging for fish in saltwaters of Georgetown County.
Section 50-5-581. Gigging for flounder.
Section 50-5-700. Trawling prohibited.
Section 50-5-705. Trawling Zone established.
Section 50-5-715. Trawling restriction areas within General Trawling Zone.
Section 50-5-720. Disposal of trawl bycatch; penalty.
Section 50-5-725. Trawling waters description references.
Section 50-5-730. Trawling near public fishing pier; penalty.
Section 50-5-735. Night trawling; finfish exception.
Section 50-5-745. Blue crab taken by legal shrimp trawlers.
Section 50-5-750. Crab trawling equipment restrictions; penalty.
Section 50-5-760. Illegal trawling.
Section 50-5-765. Use of turtle excluder devices; penalty.
Section 50-5-770. Shrimp trawl requirements; penalties.
Section 50-5-900. Commercial shellfish culture or mariculture permits; term.
Section 50-5-905. Permit applications; fee.
Section 50-5-920. Mitigation of adverse impacts on shellfish bottoms and waters.
Section 50-5-925. Publication of notice of application.
Section 50-5-935. Fees; late payment penalty.
Section 50-5-945. Permit to take shellfish for replanting or use in mariculture; conditions.
Section 50-5-950. Specification of other terms and conditions.
Section 50-5-960. Rules governing recreational shellfish bottom harvests.
Section 50-5-970. Mechanical harvest permits; penalties.
Section 50-5-980. Erection and maintenance of signs; penalty.
Section 50-5-995. Shellfish mariculture operation permits.
Section 50-5-997. Shellfish mariculture permittees; out-of-season harvest permits.
Section 50-5-1005. Shellfish importation permits; conditions; penalties.
Section 50-5-1015. Unlawful removal of shell; penalty.
Section 50-5-1100. Lawful and unlawful taking of shrimp; penalties.
Section 50-5-1102. Persons who may not obtain or hold shrimp baiting license; penalty.
Section 50-5-1105. Catch limits; bait dealer taking and possession requirements; penalties.
Section 50-5-1110. Mesh size and stretch measure for shrimp cast nets.
Section 50-5-1300. Taking of sponge crabs prohibited; import permits; penalties.
Section 50-5-1305. Blue crabs; commercial taking at night prohibited; penalties.
Section 50-5-1310. Size limitations for blue crabs; peeler crab and clam mariculture exceptions.
Section 50-5-1315. Importation of undersize blue crabs; penalties.
Section 50-5-1320. Identification of vessels taking blue crabs by trap; buoy colors; penalty.
Section 50-5-1325. Stone crabs; claw size, removal and sale limitations; penalty.
Section 50-5-1330. Horseshoe crab permits, taking and handling requirements; penalty.
Section 50-5-1335. Use of blue crab traps in certain locations.
Section 50-5-1340. Repealed by 2012 Act No. 7, Section 12, March 22, 2013.
Section 50-5-1500. Regulation of devices for taking shad, herring, or eels.
Section 50-5-1505. Taking of shad, herring, or sturgeon.
Section 50-5-1510. Special provisions as to shad and herring.
Section 50-5-1515. Shad hook and line catch limits.
Section 50-5-1520. Herring catch limits.
Section 50-5-1525. Unlawful taking of Atlantic sturgeon; penalties.
Section 50-5-1530. Receiving Atlantic sturgeon; record keeping requirements; penalties.
Section 50-5-1535. Taking of shortnose sturgeon prohibited; penalty.
Section 50-5-1540. Net placement.
Section 50-5-1545. Removal of nets during off times and periods; penalties.
Section 50-5-1550. Seizure of net or seine containing decomposed fish.
Section 50-5-1555. Commercial eel taking permits; conditions; penalty.
Section 50-5-1556. Striped bass.
Section 50-5-1557. Shad, herring, or eel sale requirements.
Section 50-5-1705. Catch limits.
Section 50-5-1707. Repealed by 2009 Act No. 47, Section 1, eff June 2, 2009.
Section 50-5-1710. Size limits.
Section 50-5-1711. Repealed by 2007, Act No. 85, Section 4, eff June 15, 2007.
Section 50-5-1713. Cobia limits established.
Section 50-5-1900. Article title.
Section 50-5-1905, 50-5-1910. Repealed by 2009 Act No. 15, Section 10, eff July 1, 2009.
Section 50-5-1915. Charter fishing vessel and public pier logs; penalties.
Section 50-5-1920, 50-5-1925. Repealed by 2009 Act No. 15, Section 10, eff July 1, 2009.
Section 50-5-1935. Commemorative stamps authorized.
Section 50-5-1940. Creation and design of stamps, licenses, prints, and related articles.
Section 50-5-1945. Repealed by 2009 Act No. 15, Section 10, eff July 1, 2009.
Section 50-5-2017. Repealed by 2010 Act No. 140, Section 3, eff March 31, 2010.
Section 50-5-2100. Mariculture permits; penalty for failure to acquire.
Section 50-5-2300. Taking and possessing diamond-backed terrapins; penalty.
Section 50-5-2305. Permit to remove live wild rock; penalty.
Section 50-5-2310. Display of dolphins and whales prohibited; penalty.
Section 50-5-2500. Point values for suspension of saltwater privileges; relation to other penalties.
Section 50-5-2505. Point system administration.
Section 50-5-2510. Suspension of saltwater privileges for accumulation of points.
Section 50-5-2515. Notice of suspension; request for review.
Section 50-5-2517. Mammalian dolphin or porpoise; prohibited activities; penalty.
Section 50-5-2525. Points cleared when suspension expires; concurrent running of suspensions.
Section 50-5-2530. Administering of article.
Section 50-5-2535. Engaging in prohibited activities while under suspension; penalties.
Section 50-5-2536. Other violations while under suspension.
Section 50-5-2540. Activities prohibited while under commercial suspension.
Section 50-5-2545. Prior points and suspensions.
Section 50-5-2700. Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Compact; members; term; vacancies.
Section 50-5-2705. Powers of Compact Commission and commissioners.
Section 50-5-2710. State officials to cooperate and furnish information.
Section 50-5-2715. Records, reports, and recommendations.
Section 50-5-2730. Federal fishing regulations declared to be law of State; exceptions.