New Jersey Fish and Game officials are cracking down on anglers flouting saltwater fishing regs.
A report in the Press of Atlantic City has this eyebrow-raising quote:
“We sit and watch at the Point Pleasant Canal (in Ocean County) and find an 80 percent violation rate with (tautog),” Chicketano said.
80 percent violation rate with blackfish? Wow.
An, no, it’s not the economy, stupid. The conservation officer in the story said many of the violators have nice boats and cars, and many are in it just for the money fish like sea bass get from Asian restaurants in Manhattan.
A bunch of party boats are in trouble and could lose their filleting priviledges for filleting undersized fish, the Press reports.
With the regs getting tougher and tougher, it’s only natural that enforcement steps up. But we here from captains and anglers every week that the laws have gone too far, especially for fluke, and the tickets being handed out have gone overboard as well.
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