DEP: Current Recreational Marine Fisheries Regulations
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Recreational Marine Fisheries
Regulations for 2009

Update: November 1, 2009
(New Regulation Changes in Red Text)

Winter Flounder 
Minimum length:  12 inches
Daily creel limit:  2 fish per angler
Season:  Open April 1 - May 30

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Summer Flounder (Fluke)
Minimum length:  19.5 inches
Daily creel limit:  3 Fish per Angler
Season:  Open June 15 - August 19

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Striped Bass 
Minimum length:  28 inches
Daily creel limit:  2 fish per angler
Season:  Open Year Round

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Bluefish
Minimum length:   None
Daily creel limit: 10 fish per angler
    (Including "snappers")
Season:  Open Year Round

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Hickory Shad / American Shad
Minimum length:  None
Daily creel limit:  6 fish per angler
  (Both species in aggregate)
Season:  Open Year Round

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Blackfish (Tautog)
Minimum length:   14 inches
Daily creel limit:  4 fish per angler
Season:
  Open  Jan. 1 - April 30 and
                            Oct. 1 - Dec. 6
Daily creel limit:  2 fish per angler
Season: 
Open  July 1 - August 31
     

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Weakfish (Sea Trout)  
Minimum length:   16 inches
Daily creel limit:  6 fish
Season:  Open Year Round

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Scup (Porgy) 
Minimum length:  10 1/2 inches
Daily creel limit:  10 fish per angler
Season:  Open May 24 - Sept 26

Party/Charter limits: 
  
Minimum length:  11 inches
  Daily Creel Limit:
10 fish per angler, 
                            June 12 - Aug. 31
                            45 fish per angler, 
                            Sept 1 - Oct. 15
  Season:  Open June 12 - October 15

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White Perch 
Minimum length:   7 inches
Daily creel limit:  30 fish per angler
Season:  Open Year Round

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Black Sea Bass* 
Minimum length: 12.5 inches
Daily creel limit:  25 fish per angler
Season:  Open Year Round
* Top Tail Fin Filament (Tendril) not 
   
included in Minimum Length measurement.

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American Eel
Minimum length:   6 inches
Daily creel limit:  50 fish per angler
Season:  Open Year Round

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Atlantic Cod
Minimum length: 22 inches 
Daily creel limit: 10 per angler
  No creel limit on Party/Charter Vessels
Season:  Open Year Round

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Haddock
Minimum length: 19 inches 
Daily creel limit:  None
Season:  Open Year Round

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Pollock
Minimum length:  19 inches
Daily creel limit:  None
Season:  Open Year Round

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Blue Crab
Minimum shell width
(Spike tip to spike tip):
 
5 inches - Hard shell
  3 1/2 inches - Soft shell
Daily creel limit:  None
Season:  May 1 - November 30

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