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Starting tomorrow and for the next 2 1/2 weeks, New York anglers won't be allowed to catch summer flounder, the popular fish also known as fluke that has long been a major engine of Long Island's recreational fishing industry.
But not everyone's cooling their heels at the docks.
A select group of charter and party boats have paid for the right to take customers out fishing without interruption - even during the midseason closure intended to reduce New York's fluke catch.
Faced with the state's tightest-ever recreational harvest restrictions, those boats are turning to an unusual federal program that raises money for fisheries research by selling off a portion of the annual catch, usually to commercial boats.
More
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ny-lifish1412868904jun14,0,6471858.story?track=rss
Starting tomorrow and for the next 2 1/2 weeks, New York anglers won't be allowed to catch summer flounder, the popular fish also known as fluke that has long been a major engine of Long Island's recreational fishing industry.
But not everyone's cooling their heels at the docks.
A select group of charter and party boats have paid for the right to take customers out fishing without interruption - even during the midseason closure intended to reduce New York's fluke catch.
Faced with the state's tightest-ever recreational harvest restrictions, those boats are turning to an unusual federal program that raises money for fisheries research by selling off a portion of the annual catch, usually to commercial boats.
More
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ny-lifish1412868904jun14,0,6471858.story?track=rss
