PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — February 1, 2013 — Maine Marine Commissioner Patrick Keliher has lifted time-of-day restrictions on trawlers fishing for shrimp, allowing them to fish around-the-clock for two days a week. He’s also lowered the daily catch limit for shrimp trappers when they begin fishing Tuesday.
The shrimp season got under way on Jan. 23 with a big quota reduction that lowered the limit to 1.4 million pounds from 5.3 million pounds last year.
Tweaking the system on Friday, Keliher eliminated the sunrise-to-3 p.m. restriction for trawlers for the first two weeks of the fishery, allowing them to fish around-the-clock on each Monday and Wednesday.
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