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Has anyone heard what they are going to be? I know there was 4 proposals to split the state in 2 with bigger creel size in north jersey than south. 2 proposals had the Delaware bay getting a 16" 4 fish limit. Was anything finalized? Seasons dates?
 
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Here were the proposals.....Would give southern New Jersey from Little Egg Harbor on south
4 fish limit at 17" 365 day season with northern New Jersey 5 fish limit at 19" 128 day season
REGIONAL OPTION 3A
http://www.asmfc.org/files/PublicInput/SFlounderDraftAddendumXXVI_PublicComment_Dec2014.pdf#page=12

Would give southern New Jersey from Little Egg Harbor on south
4 fish limit at 17" 365 day season with Northern New Jersey 4 fish limit at 19" 128 day season
REGIONAL OPTION 3B
http://www.asmfc.org/files/PublicInput/SFlounderDraftAddendumXXVI_PublicComment_Dec2014.pdf#page=13

Would give New Jersey side of the Delaware bay it's own region with a limit of 4 fish at 16" 365 day season (aligning it with Delaware)
REGIONAL OPTION 4A
http://www.asmfc.org/files/PublicInput/SFlounderDraftAddendumXXVI_PublicComment_Dec2014.pdf#page=14

Would give New Jersey side of the Delaware bay it's own region with a limit of 4 fish at 16" 365 day season (again aligning it with Delaware and the southern regions).
REGIONAL OPTION 4B
http://www.asmfc.org/files/PublicInput/SFlounderDraftAddendumXXVI_PublicComment_Dec2014.pdf#page=15
 
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The preliminary 2015 summer flounder coastwide commercial quota is 10,740,000 pounds, a
230,000 pound increase from 2014. This results in
a New Jersey commercial quota of 1,796,264
pounds, 16.7 percent of the coastwide commercial allocation.HEY I was going to net that fish.
 
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I would imagine creating two zones would be very hard to enforce because of of home port issues. Land based fishing is enforceable but I haven't heard much about this.
 
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Splitting the state would be tough.. The Delaware bay on the other hand should be the same regs as Delaware. Jersey loses a lot of money from guys who head to Delaware for the 16" size limits. Personally Id like to see the whole bay at 18" but the further south you go along the atlantic coast the smaller the fluke tend to be.
 
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Why? With a average 15% mortality rate on released fish depending on who's doing the fishing. Fishing all day and catching a hundred fish on the boat doesn't always bring a 19 incher and up. Why does it make sense to weed through all the shorts and killing a good percentage of them to throw them back when a fisherman can catch his limit quickly and go home saving more fish for the future in the end? I'd like to see 4 between 16 and 22. Yes a slot fish, why do we keep on killing all our breeder fish just to show them off?
 
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Hit Em Nasty said:
Why? With a average 15% mortality rate on released fish depending on who's doing the fishing. Fishing all day and catching a hundred fish on the boat doesn't always bring a 19 incher and up. Why does it make sense to weed through all the shorts and killing a good percentage of them to throw them back when a fisherman can catch his limit quickly and go home saving more fish for the future in the end? I'd like to see 4 between 16 and 22. Yes a slot fish, why do we keep on killing all our breeder fish just to show them off?
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I prefer the smaller ones myself. When we are dividing fillets I always put the thinner ones in my bag lol
 
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what really pisses me off is the discrepency between the commercial size limit and recreational size limit. If anything raise the commercial limit so the fish get at least 1 spawning season under their belt before they end up in Acme.
 
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palawman30 said:
what really pisses me off is the discrepency between the commercial size limit and recreational size limit. If anything raise the commercial limit so the fish get at least 1 spawning season under their belt before they end up in Acme.
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wont matter, they are dead when they come up, they have a lower size because there is no chance of the 14" fluke getting through the mesh in the net. when they do throw the smaller ones back they catch they are mostly dead any way.
 
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shoebees......[eyeroll]like you live at "da shore".....WAD you are...stay off my topics...YET AGAIN you have nothing useful to add. 15000 posts of nothing...just like real life for you...what a fine[eyeroll] human being you must be..... and just like a chick you will respond because you just have to have the last word...its in your nature...peace out chump!
 
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