Laws and regulations are frequently amended by the Legislature or DEC. You should check with the Marine Fisheries office to ensure that the requirements remain in effect.

Info current as of 6/01: SOURCES: New York State Marine Fisheries Regulations web site and NYSDEC web site

STRIPED BASS:
All marine waters south of the George Washington Bridge: 28 inch minimum size; Season May 8-December 15. (Limit 1 per day)

Hudson River north of George Washington Bridge, 18 inch minimum size; Season March 16- November 30. (Limit 1 per day)

TAUTOG ( BLACK FISH): 14 inch minimum size, limit Season all year. (Limit one fish June 1 to October 6; ten fish Oct. 7 to May 31)

BLUEFISH: No size limit; 10 fish per day (includes snappers). All year.

COD: State waters: 19 inch minimum. All year. Any number.
COD: Federal waters: 21 inch minimum. All year. Any number.

FLUKE (SUMMER FLOUNDER): Pending further notice, follow 2001 regulations of 17"minimum with a limit of 7 fish per day per person. Summer flounder may not have heads or tails removed or be otherwise cleaned, cut, filleted, or skinned until brought to shore, with the following exception: the white side fillet or white skin only of a legal size fluke may be removed to use as bait. The carcass of the fluke with dark side completely intact must be retained for inspection of size limit and counts against the possession limit.

FLOUNDER: 11 inch min. size, limit 15 fish per day; Open season in all marine waters: Third Saturday in March to June 30 and September 15- November 30.

POLLACK: 19 inch minimum size limit. All year. Any number.

PORGY: 9 inch minimum length. 50 fish per day. All year

BLACK SEA BASS: 11.5 inch minimum length. 25 per day. May 10 - Feb. 28.

WEAK FISH: 6 fish per day; 16 inch minimum size. All year.

HADDOCK: 21 inch minimum size. All year. Any number.

SPANISH MACKEREL : 14 inch minimum size. All year. (Limit 15 per day)

KING MACKEREL : 23 inch minimum size. All year. (Limit 3 per day)

AMERICAN EEL : 6 inch minimum size. All year. (Limit 50 per day)

MONKFISH : 21 inch minimum size. 14 tail length. All year. Any number.

CRABS : No size limit All year. (Limit 50 per day) Crabs in spawn (eggs visible thereon) may not be taken or
possessed.


NOTE: All measurements are total length. For updated info concerning marine recreational fishing regulations, call 800.REGS.DEC

For more Information:
NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES
SERVICE LINKS

SHARK REGULATIONS

Large and Small Coastal Sharks and Pelagic Sharks (Species: Sandbar, Silky, Tiger, Blacktip, Bull, Great Hammerhead, Lemon, Nurse, Scalloped Hammerhead, Smooth Hammerhead, Spinner, Blacknose, Bonnethead, Finetooth, Blue, Shortfin mako, Oceanic whitetip, Thresher, Poreagle) 54 inches fork length* One shark per vessel per trip

Large and Small Coastal Sharks and Pelagic Sharks (cont.) (Species: Atlantic sharpnose) No size limit One Atlantic sharpnose per person per trip

Prohibited Sharks (Species: Atlantic angel, Galapagos, Basking, Longfin mako, Bigeye Sand Tiger, Narrowtooth, Bigeye Sixgill, Night, Bigeye Thresher, Sand tiger, Bignose, Sevengill, Carribean Reef, Sixgill, Carribean sharpnose, Smalltail, Dusky, Whale, and White)+ No possession allowed

* Fork length means the straightline measurement of a fish from the tip of the snout to the fork of the tail. The measurement is not made along the curve of the body.

+ A person may fish for white sharks with rod and reel, provided the person releases such fish immediately with a minimum of injury and that such fish may not be removed from the water.

Other provisions
• All landed sharks must have head, tails and fins attached
• No sale allowed
• No finning.