Summer flounder business as usual

[Brewlugger]

According to a release from the NJ Conservation Officers Association. On March 14 authorities received information from New York regarding a New Jersey based fishing vessel approach a second vessel off the coast of New York. After studying the vessels tracks police suspected the vessels met up to transfer fish. Authorities inspected one vessel when it landed in Point Pleasant, and discovered the vessel possessed an excess of their summer flounder bycatch limit. Since the vessel previously landed a directed amount of summer flounder earlier in the week, the vessel was only allowed to land up to 200lbs but possessed 253lbs of bycatch. Investigators contacted the other vessel at sea and landed them in Belford. The operator of the Point Pleasant vessel admitted that he gave the other vessel 750lbs of summer flounder since he had already landed his one legal trip for the week.