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New York Marine Fisheries
Call: 516-444-0436 or 1-800-REGS-DEC
SPECIES |
SEASON |
| American eel |
6 inches / 50 per person /
Year round |
| American lobster |
3-3/8" carapace length / 6 per person
Year round / Rec. permit required |
Atlantic
Codfish |
22 inches / All Year /
10 fish in state waters |
| Atlantic sturgeon |
No Possession Allowed |
Blackfish
(Tautog) |
16
inches
/ 4 fish
October 8 - December
4 |
| Black Sea Bass
|
13 inches /
15 fish
June 15 to Dec. 31 |
Blue Claw Crabs
|
Year round / No Size Limit / 50 per day
No egg bearing females
4-1/2 inches Hard / 3-1/2 inches soft / 3 inches shedder |
Bluefish |
Year Round / 15 per day
No more than ten (10) 12 inches or
smaller
Commercial sale prohibited aboard Party/Charter
Boat |
| Cobia |
37 inches / 2 per day / All Year |
| Red
Drum |
no minimum
size limit, No Bag limit
but no fish over 27 inches
allowed |
Flounder-Winter |
12 inches & 2 fish daily
/
April 1 to May 30 |
| Flounder-Yellowtail |
13 inches / Any Number / All Year |
Flounder-Summer
(Fluke) Official |
19-1/2 inches / 4 fish / May 1 - Sept.
30 |
| King Mackerel |
23 inches / 3 per
day / All Year |
| Monkfish (goose fish) |
17 inches &
11-inch tail length / No limit / Year round |
| Pollock |
19 inches / All Year / Any Number |
Scup
(porgy)
Aboard Party /Charter Boat |
11 inches / 20 fish
/ May 1-Dec. 31
11 inches / 40 fish / 9/1 to 10/31
11 inches / 10 fish
/ 11/1 to 12/31 |
Scup
(porgy)
Private
Boaters/Shore anglers |
10-1/2
inches / 20 fish /
5/1 to 12/31 |
| Spanish mackerel |
14 inches / 15 per day / All Year |
| Striped Bass: |
Marine District south
of GW Bridge:
April 15 - Dec. 15 / One (1) per day at 28
inches PLUS one bass over 40 inches
Party/Charter: Two (2) per day 28 inches
Hudson River (above GW Bridge) March 16-Dec
15: One (1) fish at 18 inches per day. |
Weakfish |
16 inches &
1 per day / All Year
10" Filleted / 12" Dressed |
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Haddock |
18 inches / No
limits / All Year |
| Oyster
Toadfish |
a minimum size limit of 10",
possession limits of 3 fish recreational or 25 fish commercial, and an
open season from July 16 to May
14 |
Prohibited Sharks: Atlantic Angel, Galapagos, Basking, Longfin mako,
Bigeye, Sand Tiger, Narrowtooth , Bigeye Sixgill, Night, Bigeye thresher, Bignose,
Sevengill, Carribean Reef, Carribean sharpnose, Smalltail dusky, Wale & Great White
Large & Small Coastal & Pelagic Sharks: 54 inches fork length & one
shark per vessel: Sandbar, Silky, Tiger, Blacktip, Bull, Great Hammerhead, Lemon,
Nurse, Scalloped Hammerhead, Smooth hammerhead,Spinner, Blacknose, Bonnethead, Finetooth,
Blue Shortfin Mako, Oceanic Whitetip, Thresher, Porbeagle
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