Apr 29
Many of you have heard about the challenge of maintaining angling opportunity for the summer flounder fishery along the Atlantic coast. This fishery, one of the most important on the Atlantic, has been threatened with a closure by federal managers in the Exclusive Economic Zone (three miles to 200 miles) in 2009. Clearly such an action would reduce recreational fishing opportunity and have a negative impact on the sportfishing businesses which depend on the summer flounder fishery. The irony of this threat is that summer flounder stocks in the Atlantic are at a 40 year high.
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