Title 7 Natural Resources and Environmental Control
3500 Tidal Finfish
3000 Division of Fish and Wildlife
3500 Tidal Finfish
Spanish Mackerel
3552 Spanish Mackerel Size Limit and Possession Requirements.
(Penalty Section 7 Del.C. ยง936(b)(2))
1.0 Unless otherwise authorized, it shall be unlawful for any person to possess any Spanish mackerel, (Scomberomorus maculatus), that measure less than fourteen (14) inches total length.
2.0 Unless otherwise authorized, it shall be unlawful for any recreational finfisherman to have in possession more than fifteen (15) Spanish mackerel at or between the place caught and his/her personal abode or temporary or transient place of lodging.
3.0 Unless otherwise authorized, it shall be unlawful for any recreational finfisherman to possess any Spanish mackerel at or between the place caught and his/her personal abode or temporary or transient place of lodging without the head and fins intact.
4.0 Unless otherwise authorized, it shall be unlawful for any commercial finfisherman to possess or land more than 3,500 pounds of Spanish mackerel per vessel, per day.
5.0 Unless otherwise authorized, it shall be unlawful for any commercial finfisherman to possess any Spanish mackerel without the head and fins intact prior to selling, trading or bartering said Spanish mackerel.
4 DE Reg 1552 (3/1/01)
16 DE Reg. 94 (07/02/12)
