January 4, 2016 — A public hearing on summer flounder and sea bass regulations will be held at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 7 at the Stafford Township Municipal Building.
What’s on the table is Draft Addendum XXVII to the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Summer Flounder, Scup, Black Sea Bass Fishery Management Plan.
There will be a cutback of 30-percent of the coastwide harvest of summer flounder in 2016 from 23 million pounds to 16 million pounds but it may not impact recreational regulations because anglers fished under their 2015 quota.