At the most resent meeting it has been deemed by government that STOCKS ARE NOT IN TROUBLE and the 2 fish limit will stay in effect in 2015 with adjustments to size only. Main issue is elimination of bonus tags because of charter and head boat abuse. No one monitor them do to budget cut and then again no one sends them in because of this. Problem is how to keep tag quota from going to commercial in other states as we are a game fish state here in NJ.

So all these posts are now basically useless until reassessment around 2016/2017. If stocks drop below the Menendez line in the interim the fishery will be shut down or adjusted accordingly with out any intervention. Period end of quote so move on.