Nj & NY Different Striper Regulations? Ok for Bass unfair for Fluke?

[Capt Sal]

Originally Posted by TomKaye

Let me see if I understand this proposal. Here's a hypothetical situation :
3 of us go fish a private boat from AHMM. One morning we're lucky enough
to get a 28, a 29 & a 30" striper for the table. Let's imagine we were at Flynn's.

On the same imaginary trip we get a 37" let's say off some NY point. We cannot keep that 37" because
we're berthed in NJ and heading back there, and need a 43" or bigger ???

Pls note we would probably C & R anyway after we got our table fare,
but what if we wanted to feed a neighbor or we have big families ??
WTF is with our politicians ?

It is where your home port is. If you kept two fish say 30 and 34" in Ny last year and were out of AH you were illegal until you entered NJ waters. Years ago when we had a slot fish we had the same problem. I would tell my charter there is no problem keeping the 24-less than 28" bass but once we had one slot fish in the cooler we could not enter NY waters. It cuts the bay in half! Same thing with the fluke,weakfish and winter flounder years ago.On the other hand NY does not allow purse seining of bunker in the bay and NJ does.