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Originally Posted by Fly Rod
WRONG!!!!  
It is the last day of commercial fishing for awhile. The rolling closures start on April 1st, all gear needs to be out of the water by midnight March 31st. The rolling closure areas begin to open up June 1st south of the 42.30 line, this line is just below Halfway Rk., and then on June 1st it opens north of the 42.30 line.
This is good news for recreational fishing, the cod will be plentiful in a couple of weeks with no harassment from the commercial gillnetters catching and dumping thousands of pounds.
The bad news for rec's is that until April 15th you can only take two cod per person under 75 pounds(U canot have more then 75lbs. of cod) You can take 10 cod per person after the 15th.
If you are not sure check with Mass. division of Marine Fisheries. 
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The only applies for the Gulf of Maine, in case you don't have a chart handy, the area we are talking about is south of the Gulf of Maine, in what's called "southern New England." Also, fluke, sea bass, scup, squid, butterfish, mackerel, haddock and several other species are all open to commercial fishing right now.