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Purchase Image Zoom FILE: Summer flounder or fluke sit on totes of ice. / APP FILE PHOTOPOINT PLEASANT BEACH — The owner of a commercial vessel based here and the captain were both charged with illegally harvesting thousands of pounds of summer flounder and black sea bass.
Alda Gentile, 53, of Speonk, N.Y., the owner of the trawler Atlantic Queen, and Captain William Jeffery Stanley, 44, of Brick are charged with landing 2,397 pounds of summer flounder and more than 1,208 pounds of black sea bass following a 10-day fishing trip that returned in the overnight of Jan. 24-25. The vessel was permitted to harvest a maximum of 200 pounds of summer flounder and 100 pounds of black sea bass, according to the state Division of Fish and Wildlife which issued the summonses.
Gentile and Stanley were each charged with landing the fish without valid permits, harvesting both species in excess of 10 percent of total weight of species brought to the dock, failing to notify the Division of Fish and Wildlife that it was fishing for these species, and harvesting summer flounder during a closed season. Both men face fines of up to $21,000 each.
State officials say the vessel had the appropriate federal fisheries permits for these species, but did not have the appropriate state licenses for either of the species landed. The permits are necessary to land the fish in New Jersey, according to Capt. Mark Chicketano of the state Division of Fish and Wildlife.
"Our coastal waters support rich and diverse commercial fisheries, but it is imperative that everyone--from captains and owners of ocean-going commercial vessels to the individual angler casting a line from the beach or a pleasure boat--obey the regulations that are in place to protect these resources,'' said Chicketano. "This was a significant violation of those regulations.''
The fish were sold by state conservation officers to a licensed dealer so they would not go to waste and the state will be holding the proceeds of the sale pending adjudication of the case in Municipal Court, Chicketano added.
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CHARLES WEBSTER Filed Under
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Purchase Image Zoom FILE: Summer flounder or fluke sit on totes of ice. / APP FILE PHOTOPOINT PLEASANT BEACH — The owner of a commercial vessel based here and the captain were both charged with illegally harvesting thousands of pounds of summer flounder and black sea bass.
Alda Gentile, 53, of Speonk, N.Y., the owner of the trawler Atlantic Queen, and Captain William Jeffery Stanley, 44, of Brick are charged with landing 2,397 pounds of summer flounder and more than 1,208 pounds of black sea bass following a 10-day fishing trip that returned in the overnight of Jan. 24-25. The vessel was permitted to harvest a maximum of 200 pounds of summer flounder and 100 pounds of black sea bass, according to the state Division of Fish and Wildlife which issued the summonses.
Gentile and Stanley were each charged with landing the fish without valid permits, harvesting both species in excess of 10 percent of total weight of species brought to the dock, failing to notify the Division of Fish and Wildlife that it was fishing for these species, and harvesting summer flounder during a closed season. Both men face fines of up to $21,000 each.
State officials say the vessel had the appropriate federal fisheries permits for these species, but did not have the appropriate state licenses for either of the species landed. The permits are necessary to land the fish in New Jersey, according to Capt. Mark Chicketano of the state Division of Fish and Wildlife.
"Our coastal waters support rich and diverse commercial fisheries, but it is imperative that everyone--from captains and owners of ocean-going commercial vessels to the individual angler casting a line from the beach or a pleasure boat--obey the regulations that are in place to protect these resources,'' said Chicketano. "This was a significant violation of those regulations.''
The fish were sold by state conservation officers to a licensed dealer so they would not go to waste and the state will be holding the proceeds of the sale pending adjudication of the case in Municipal Court, Chicketano added.
