These people must sit around all day dreaming up this stuff,, too much time on their hands?

Improving Recreational Fishing Compliance (322 CMR 6.03 and 6.41). To improve compliance with recreational fishing minimum sizes and trip limits, DMF is proposing to:

Hold for-hire operators and permit holders liable for violations of recreational fishing regulations that occur onboard the for-hire vessel;
Allow the at-sea filleting of all recreationally caught species under the following conditions:
i. For the purpose of species identification, skin remains affixed to all fillets;
ii. For the purpose of compliance with bag limits, the number of fillets does not exceed:
1. Two times the species specific bag limit; or
2. In the case of flounder species that have been butterfly filleted, four times the species specific bag limit; and
iii. Filleting will remain prohibited for private recreational anglers catching striped bass.
To determine compliance with bag limits or fillet limits, in instances where recreational anglers have comingled catch, the comingled catch will be divided by the number of active anglers.



Public Hearing Schedule


February 18, 2014
6:00 PM
Plymouth Harbor Radisson Hotel
180 Water Street
Plymouth, MA 02360

February 19, 2014
6:00 PM
DMF’s Annisquam River Station
30 Emerson Avenue
Gloucester, MA 01930