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Originally Posted by Mike P
There are several corridors along the coast where boats can pass from legal waters through the EEZ without violating the law. That's one of them. There's another one off Chatham, since Nantucket Sound---all of it---is outside of the EEZ. Don't wander out of the corridor, and don't fish while you're transiting the corridor. Those boats were probably stopped outside of the corridor. CG sits on that corridor a lot during the Mass commercial season. Or they were seen fishing inside of the EEZ, and reported.
Depending on how far "east" of Nantucket you are, you could be in the EEZ.
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There is no safe corridor between nantucket and chatham/harwich...I know of a few charter boats have been stopped and fined for having bass on board coming back from nantucket...one captain twice..there's a one mile fed zone[eez] between the tip of monnomoy and brant point light....most comm. boats fish 10 miles out east of nantucket....some have been caught red handed by helo and on film doing it...never heard what happened in court....it's mostly the old school boats doing this around here.....they say we've been fishing for 50 years and no one is going to tell us when and where we can fish.