It is unlawful to use a gill net in the Androscoggin River, Merrymeeting Bay and its tributaries, and the Kennebec River upstream of a line across the Kennebec River from Fort Popham in the Town of Phippsburg to a point opposite on the lower end of Georgetown.
Exceptions:The use of gill nets which do not exceed a maximum stretch mesh measure of 3 1/2 inches for the taking of menhaden, river herring, blueback herring, sea herring, and mackerel is exempted from this rule.
13- 188 C.M.R. ch. 55, § 94