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Originally Posted by monkfish
It seems that boats fishing SW ledge or any BI waters and return to mainland are in violation! Isn't some of the water between the island and mainland federal waters? It's no different that boats leaving the south shore of the cape and fishing east of Nantucket which is some of the best bass water in the world. The CG was stopping boats coming back to Harwichport and Chatham for illegal possession of bass in Federal waters. Why there and not RI?
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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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