January 13, 2014 — BABYLON, N.Y. — Sen. Charles Schumer has announced that fluke fairness may be coming for New York fishermen.
Currently, fishermen in New York cannot catch as many fluke as fishermen in Connecticut or New Jersey.
As WCBS 880 Long Island Bureau Chief Mike Xirinachs reported, it appears the federal Fisheries Council is prepared to establish new guidelines after decades of fighting for a fairer, regional fluke fishing quota for New York’s recreational fishermen.
“One that will lay the path to establishing permanent fluke fairness,” Schumer said at a press conference in front of Long Island’s Captree fishing fleet in Babylon on Monday. “The limits are discriminatory, plain and simple. They hurt New York disproportionately.”
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