December 2, 2014 — The Coast Guard has stepped up its winter enforcement efforts to stop the offshore poaching of stripers along the New Jersey and Delaware coasts through the month of December.
“Federal regulations say that you may not catch, target or posses (striped bass) beyond three miles offshore,” according to Coast Guard Lt. Kevin Higgins of the Delaware Bay Sector in Philadelphia. “Beyond the three nautical mile line, federal laws apply … within three nautical miles, that’s where state laws apply and the state’s have their own laws for striped bass where you are allowed to have them.”
Higgins said Coast Guard cutters from its stations along the New Jersey coastline will be patrolling federal ocean waterways 24 hours a day and will be looking for any illegal catches during random safety inspections.
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