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[CITE: 16USC781]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
  CHAPTER 11--REGULATION OF LANDING, CURING, AND SALE OF SPONGES TAKEN 
               FROM GULF OF MEXICO AND STRAITS OF FLORIDA
 
Sec. 781. Taking or catching, in waters of Gulf or Straits of 
        Florida, commercial sponges of less than prescribed size, and 
        landing or possession of same
        
    It is unlawful for any citizen of the United States, or person owing 
duty of obedience to the laws of the United States, or any boat or 
vessel of the United States, or person belonging to or on any such boat 
or vessel, to take or catch, by any means or method, in the waters of 
the Gulf of Mexico or the Straits of Florida outside of State 
territorial limits, any commercial sponges measuring when wet less than 
five inches in their maximum diameter, or for any person or vessel to 
land, deliver, cure, offer for sale, or have in possession at any port 
or place in the United States, or on any boat or vessel of the United 
States, any such commercial sponges.

(Aug. 15, 1914, ch. 253, Sec. 1, 38 Stat. 692.)
