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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 / No Limit
(Fed's is 10 as of 5/1...NY soon to follow)
Atlantic sturgeon No Possession Allowed

Blackfish (Tautog)

 14 inches / 4 fish /
Oct 1 - Dec. 20 & Jan. 17 to April 30
Black Sea Bass 12-1/2 inches / 25 fish
All Year

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
Drum-Red no minimum size limit, No Bag limit
but no fish over 27 inches

Flounder-Winter

12 inches & 10 fish daily
April 1 to May 30 & No Fall Season
Flounder-Yellowtail 13 inches  / Any Number / All Year

Flounder-Summer (Fluke) Official

21 inches / 2 fish bag limit
Open: May 15 - June 16 / Closed: June 17-July 2:
 Open again July 3 to August 17 / Closed thereafter
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) Official
Aboard Party /Charter Boat

 6/12 to 8/31 / 11 inches /10 fish
9/1-10/15 / 11 inches / 45 fish

Scup (porgy) Official
Private Boaters/Shore anglers

 5/24 to 9/26 /  10-1/2 inches / 10 fish
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 & 6 per day / All Year
10" Filleted / 12" Dressed
Haddock 19 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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