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February 8, 2008
Fluke cuts are coming
Coastal fishing regulators have established a coast-wide limit for summer flounder. Now it’s up to state regulators to establish a recreational-fishing season and limits on fluke for 2008. Rhode Island faces a 52-percent cut.
The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, meeting in Virginia last week, decided to limit the recreational summer-flounder catch to 2.05 million fish this year. Members from each of the coastal states used guidelines to each of the states that would meet the overall goal.
Each state has some flexibility in stabling its own rules within the guidelines. If a state fails to conform to the guidelines, its anglers automatically will be limited to a a two fish possession limit at a 20-inch minimum size with an open season from July 4 to Sept. 1.
In Rhode Island, the Department of Environmental Management will hold a public hearing Feb. 26 on proposed amendments to the state’s marine fisheries regulations. The hearing will take place at 6 p.m. at the University of Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay Campus Corless Auditorium on South Ferry Road in Narragansett.
Posted by Tom Meade
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