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Senate advances bill to remove size limit and raise catch cap for blue catfish outside Santee Cooper system
Summary
Senators approved a committee amendment to S.337 that treats blue catfish as invasive outside the Santee Cooper system, allowing up to 150 fish per day and removing the two-fish-over-32-inch limit; the measure received a 41-0 second-reading vote.
The South Carolina Senate on March 11 adopted a committee amendment to S.337 that treats blue catfish as an invasive species outside the Santee Cooper system and changes daily and size limits for those waters.
Senator from Florence, explaining the committee amendment, said DNR (the Department of Natural Resources) “has, essentially told us that these catfish, blue catfish are in fact invasive species especially outside of the…
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