| Species |
Open Season
|
Min. Total
Length (inches) |
Possession Limit
(per person/per day) |
| Atlantic Sturgeon,Shortnose
Sturgeon |
No Open Season
|
|
0
|
| American Eel |
|
6"
|
50
|
| Cod |
No Closed Season
|
21" |
No limit
|
| Pollock |
No Closed Season
|
19"
|
No limit
|
| Haddock |
No Closed Season
|
21"
|
No limit
|
| Cobia |
No Closed Season
|
37"
|
2
|
| Shad |
No Closed Season
|
No minimum
|
6 |
Sharks NOTICE: SHARK REGULATIONS MAY CHANGE DURING 2009
PROHIBITED:
IN NJ and FEDERAL WATERS (3+ MILES): Atlantic Angel, Basking, Bigeye Sand Tiger, Sand Tiger, Bigeye Thresher, Bigeye sixgill, Bignose, Carribean Reef, Carribean sharpnose, Dusky, Galapagos, Longfin mako, Narrowtooth, Night, Sandbar (Brown Shark), Sevengill, Silky, Sixgill, Smalltail, Whale & White Sharks **It is illegal to take, possess or
land any or these species**
SHARK ID CHARTS AVAIL. AT THE STORE |
No Closed Season
|
48" Nose to tip of tail OR
23 inches from front of dorsal
to front of tail fin |
2/boat/day
See below for shark permit information
|
Species that may be kept:
Large Coastal Shark: blacktip, bull, lemon, nurse, tiger (not sandtiger), spinner, scalloped hammerhead, smooth hammerhead, great hammerhead.
Small Coastal Shark: atlantic sharpnose, bonnethead, blacknose, finetooth
Pelagic Shark: shortfin mako, blue, porbeagle, oceanic whitetip and common thresher.
AS of 2003, outside 3 Miles in the EEZ (Federal Waters) a permit is required in order to take sharks! http://www.nmfspermits.com/
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/sfa/hms/rec_info.htm
It is not required for sharks taken in the bay, ie: brown sharks.
HMS Permit Holders MUST abide by the federal regulations, not state, in taking of sharks. ie: any vessel that does NOT have a HMS permit to fish federal waters may take brown shark in NJ waters, but an HMS permit holder CANNOT. |
PRINTABLE ATLANTIC SHARK RECREATIONAL FISHERY REGULATIONS JUNE 2009 (.pdf file)
No species of fish with a minimum size
limit listed above may be filleted or cleaned at sea (except striped bass
if fillet is at least 28" long). (Party boats licensed to carry 15 or more
passengers may apply for a permit to fillet the above species, except striped
bass, at sea.)
Shark Identification Guide (.pdf file)
RELEASE INFORMATION: If you are not sure of the species and whether you may keep it, release it. Recreational fisherman can no longer retain sandbar or "brown" sharks or silky sharks as of June 2009.
|
| Lobster--carapace length |
No Closed Season
|
3 3/8" - 5 1/4"
|
6 |
| Tuna------See Federal
Regulations |
|
|
|
|
