Dave Anderson

1 week ago | thefisherman.com | Jim Hutchinson |Dave Anderson

With the first official day of summer coming up on June 20, it’s important to remember some of the other important transitional changes coming up between spring and summer. In New Jersey, the 10-fish bag limit for black sea bass comes to an end on Thursday, June 19. Starting on July 1 a one-fish bag limit returns with the same 12-1/2-inch minimum size limit through August 31. The bag limits will return to 10 sea bass per person on October 1, with a 15-fish bag limit in place as of November 1.

1 week ago | thefisherman.com | Jim Hutchinson |Dave Anderson

South Jersey Yacht Sales is pleased to announce two events in conjunction with the worldwide debut of the new Albemarle 45 Carolinian Fish-Around Express. This first of its kind sportfishing boat from the venerable Edenton, NC builder, the 45 Carolinian Fish-Around Express is unlike anything the company has previously built in terms of size, power, and layout.

1 week ago | thefisherman.com | Dave Anderson |Jim Hutchinson

Atlantic cod is a classic New England fish, found everywhere from roadside fish-and-chip stands to the Massachusetts State House. Under the Magnuson–Stevens Act, NOAA Fisheries fosters the long-term biological and economic sustainability of marine fisheries, including rebuilding overfished stocks. Currently Atlantic cod is considered overfished and rebuilding plans are in place to promote population growth.

1 week ago | thefisherman.com | Dave Anderson |Jim Hutchinson

As reported in our June 9, 2025 weekly edition, NOAA Fisheries has radically reduced the recreational regulations on bluefin tuna this season, to just one school bluefin from 27 to less than 47 inches for private vessels, and two school bluefin for both charter and head boats. The decision was immediately felt in New Jersey as the BlueFin Open tournament was promptly cancelled.

1 week ago | thefisherman.com | Dave Anderson |Jim Hutchinson

Connecticut fisheries managers decided to extend their creative solutions to the sea bass overharvest through the 2025 season. After NOAA dropped the hammer on a coastwide overharvest in 2022, lawmakers in Connecticut used some Yankee ingenuity to weave a sea bass season through the year without having to drop bag limits or increase minimum size limits. The trick was closing the season for two weeks at the beginning of the summer.