Ny fluke regulations 2024

New York State this week published new rules for the 2024 recreational fluke fishing season, dashing the hopes of some that the season would open April 1.

Instead, according to the new rules, recreational anglers can start fishing for fluke on May 4, and will be allowed to keep three fluke a day this year compared with four in 2023.

Another catch: there’s a new split season, allowing anglers to keep a 19-inch fish from May 4 to Aug. 1, before raising the limit to 19.5 inches between Aug. 2 and Oct. 15.

Bigger fish are generally harder to come by, and raising the limit can put greater pressure on the species by forcing anglers to catch more fish to land a keeper, fishermen say.

Regulators say the so-called discard mortality that results from increasing the minimum size is more than offset by the reduction of keeper fish.

“New York got the short end of the stick again,” said Steve Witthuhn, a Montauk charterboat captain and a member of the DEC’s marine resources advisory council.

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“New York didn’t get what they voted for. We got less. We got fish taken away.”

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