---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 C.F.R. § 622.302"
title: "50"
number: "622.302"
heading: "Minimum mesh size."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/50/622.302"
---

# §622.302. Minimum mesh size.

- (a) The minimum allowable mesh size for a net used to fish for pelagic sargassum in the South Atlantic EEZ is 4.0 inches (10.2 cm), stretched mesh, and such net must be attached to a frame no larger than 4 ft by 6 ft (1.2 m by 1.8 m). A vessel in the South Atlantic EEZ with a net on board that does not meet these requirements may not possess any pelagic sargassum.
- (b) [Reserved]

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.

### Source

Source: 78 FR 22952, Apr. 17, 2013, unless otherwise noted.