Rules and regulations divide anglers in neighboring states.

The Raritan bay is shared by NewYork and New Jersey anglers; however they do not share the same rules of fishery management. In fact regulations on fluke have New York anglers giving up on a summer flounder season. The New York side is fed up and throwing its arms up in frustration over the politics involved in a fishery management rule. New York anglers are steadily catching hundreds of fish only to release them back to New Jersey angler’s .New York is currently at a 21 inch 2 fish limit per day while New Jersey recreational possession limit and minimum size remain at 6 fish per day and 18 inches. This is a major problem not only for the management of the species but also for New York businesses owners that count on a bountiful summer flounder season.

New York and New Jersey anglers are fishing the same bay for the same species. The difference is New York will never bag a keeper limit if the fish needs to be 21 inches and New Jersey only 18 inches. New York doesn’t have a chance at a fillet of flounder dinner. Fluke or Summer flounder are currently managed under an interstate plan that uses out dated information leaving the NYS DEC to manage the rules as they stand. Unfortunately the stale data is unfair and critically damaging fluke stocks in the bay. The NY DEC is currently in federal court fighting for fairness in this fishery........

Red Bank resident John Andryszewski reeled in a 1,012-pound blue marlin on Monday, July 12 off the coast of Bermuda.  He was on a fishing trip sponsored by the Normandy Beach-based construction company Falcon Industries that left out of Hamilton Harbor on Monday morning.  Andryszewski battled the fish for nearly three hours, thanks to the captain, Kevin Winter, of the Playmate.  If caught in competition, the fish would have been worth $1 million. 

As of this week, Andryszewski's catch was the largest blue marlin caught in Bermuda this season, as well as the largest fish this island-fishing community has seen in the last two years.

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