Fishing

Catch shares. Quotas. Consolidation. Terms not normally associated with summertime flounder fishing in the back bays of Atlantic City, Brigantine and Margate. Ever rising ‘keeper’ sizes and heavy-handed regulation. Are recreational fishing businesses at the Jersey Shore headed for extinction? It certainly looks like state and federal are leaning that way. Fearful of over-fishing, the […]

On the recent ‘Shep on Fishing’ radio show (Sat 7a, WOND 1400am), topics included flounder, seabass, half-day party boats, follow the money, Boardwalk, and the infamous CRDA. A common theme during the show: Who wants to kill recreational fishing in South Jersey? Because they way rules are being decided, this key economic driver, is on the

2018 Summer Flounder Regulations. Reforming Magnuson-Stevens Act of 1976. Why punish recreational fishermen and harm local tourism with un-needed rules and fishing regulations? Ridiculous precautionary measures are killing recreational fishing & tourism. The Jersey Shore is getting economically strangled. New Jersey is now in our OWN REGION? And not connected to NY & CT? Yes. 

LISTEN > The NJ DEP (Dept of Environmental Protection) is not only being accused of being bad for our beaches, but anglers and bait shop owners say they’re hurting the fishing tourism and shoreline eco-systems too. South Jersey fishermen have noted that regular sand dredging, also known as underwater strip-mining by the Army Corps of