(1) haul seines shall not be used measuring over one hundred fifty fathoms in length, attached to which may be two wings, each measuring not more than one hundred fifty fathoms in length with a stretched mesh size including knot of not less than three and one-quarter inches in one wing and three and one-half inches in the other wing;

(2) the use of haul seines is prohibited from midnight Thursday to 6:00 P.M. Sunday.

(3) when permitted by the commissioner, pound or trap nets may be used in the waters described in paragraph a of this subdivision provided they do not interfere with or obstruct navigation or the carrying out of shellfish culture as provided in this chapter. Any such pound or trap nets shall be marked in accordance with requirements prescribed by the commissioner. b. Waste fish shall not be left on shore or within the waters five hundred feet from shore. 15. a. Nets shall not be used in Long Island sound west of an imaginary line from the New York-Connecticut boundary shore line extending easterly and southerly to Eaton's Point Neck on Long Island from April 1 to November 1, nor at any time in the waters of Huntington Bay, Lloyd Harbor, Northport Bay or Coldspring Harbor; provided, however, that hand nets not more than forty feet long and four feet in width may be used to take minnows and shrimp for bait, at any time. b. Gill nets shall not be used in Long Island Sound or in harbors, bays or other waters adjacent thereto west of an imaginary line extending north from the easterly boundary of the town of Brookhaven on the north shore of Long Island in the county of Suffolk. However, as permitted under subdivision ten of section 13-0329 of this chapter, a holder of a commercial lobster license may use no more than one gill net not longer than three hundred feet with a stretched mesh size between three and one-half inches and four and one-quarter inches to take bait fish between April 1 and November 15 during each weekly period beginning 6:00 p.m., Sunday, through 9:00 a.m. Friday, providing that each net will be buoyed on each end and identified with the permittee's commercial lobster license number. The net shall be fished with the top not less than four feet below the surface of the water. 16. Unless permitted by statute, or licensed or permitted by the department, nets shall not be possessed by any person in or on waters of the marine district, in the following instances: a. Nets of metallic fabric shall not be possessed in or on any waters or within one-half mile thereof; b. In waters where use of trawls is prohibited by section 13-0341, such trawls shall not be possessed in the waters where their use is prohibited, or during any time when such use is so prohibited; c. In waters where use of nets other than trawls, or use of trawls; is prohibited by this section, the nets, or trawls, as the case may be, or nets of the kind or kinds prohibited, shall not be possessed in the waters where their use is prohibited or during any time when such use is prohibited, except that where a provision of this section expressly specifies a lesser distance from the water in which possession is prohibited, this section does not enlarge the distance from the water in which such possession is prohibited. d. Nothing in this subdivision shall be construed as prohibiting commercial fishing vessels sailing to or from offshore fishing grounds from carrying on board fishing gear that may legally be used in such offshore waters even though they must pass through waters where the use of such gear is otherwise prohibited. 17. Within three nautical miles of the Atlantic coastline and in all other tidal waters within the state, the use of purse seines for taking food fish is prohibited. 18. Nets and seines measuring more than twenty-five feet in length and four feet in depth shall not be used in the waters of Oyster Bay Harbor. 19. a. Gill or trammel nets set or operated in the marine and coastal district shall be marked at each end with an orange flag at least twelve inches square attached to a mast rising above the surface of the water at least five feet. Nets operated after dark shall have orange and white reflective tape attached to the mast for a minimum one foot length immediately below the flag. b. No gill or trammel net shall be set or operated in the marine and coastal district within one thousand feet of a pound or trap net. c. Except in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island Sound, Tiana Bay, Shinnecock Bay, Mecox Bay, Quantuck Bay, that portion of Moriches Bay within the town of Southampton, and the marine and coastal waters lying easterly of an imaginary line extending in a general southerly direction from Cleaves Point in the town of Southold to Hay Beach Point in Shelter Island, and a line extending in a general northeasterly direction from Mashomack Point in Shelter Island to Cedar Point at the eastern entrance to Sag Harbor, no gill or trammel net shall be set in the waters of the marine and coastal district from sunset Friday to sunrise Monday during the period from April first to November first. d. Gill or trammel nets set or operated in the waters of the Great South Bay shall not exceed twelve hundred feet in length. In addition to the requirements in paragraph a of this subdivision, nets set or operated in the Great South Bay shall display surface markers at least every one hundred feet. No gill or trammel net shall be set in the waters of the Great South Bay from May first until May thirty-first, inclusive. For the purposes of this subdivision, Great South Bay shall mean the waters extending east from Wantagh State Parkway to the Smith Point Bridge and southwest to the Robert Moses Inlet Bridge. e. Those gill and trammel nets set in the waters of the Hudson River in accordance with section 11-1511 of this chapter shall be exempt from the provisions of this subdivision. f. The use of gill or trammel nets for the taking of blackfish is prohibited.