Laws and regulations are frequently amended by the Legislature or DEC.  You should check with the Marine Fisheries office to ensure that the requirements set forth in thisa notice remain in effect.  The most recent changes to this summary are effective as of June 16, 2006.

For further information, visit the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Bureau of Marine Resources website at www.dec.state.ny.us/website/dfwmr/marine/finfish/swflaws.html
 
MARINE RECREATIONAL FISHING REGULATIONS
SPECIES SIZE LIMITS
(Total Length In Inches)		 DAILY
POSSESSION
LIMITS
(Number Of Fish)		 OPEN SEASON
Summer Flounder (Fluke)* 18 4 May 6 - Sept 12
Winter Flounder 12 10 April 1 - May 30
Tautog (Blackfish) 14 10 Oct 1 - May 31
Bluefish
(including "Snappers")		 FIRST 10 FISH: No Minimum
Next 5: 12 TL		 15
No more than 10 of which shall be less then 12" TL		 All Year
Weakfish 16
10 Filleted
12 Dressed		 6 All Year
Atlantic Cod 22 No Limit All Year
Pollock 19 No Limit All Year
Haddock 19 No Limit All Year
Striped Bass; Marine Waters**
Anglers aboard licensed
party/charter boats		 28 2*** Apr 15 - Dec 15
Striped Bass; Marine Waters**
All Other Anglers		 28 - 40
>40		 1
1		 Apr 15 - Dec 15
Striped Bass;
North of George Washington Bridge		 18 1 Mar 16 - Nov 30
Red Drum No Minimum Size No Limit for fish less than 27" TL. Fish greater than 27" shall not be possessed All Year
Spanish Mackerel 14 15 All Year
King Mackerel 23 3 All Year
Cobia 37 2 All Year
Atlantic Sturgeon Moratorium Moratorium Moratorium
Black Sea Bass 12 25 All Year
Scup (Porgy)
Anglers aboard licensed
party/charter boats		 10.5 25
60***		 June 1 - Aug 31
Sept 1 - Oct 31***
Scup (Porgy)
All Other Anglers		 10.5 25 June 1 - Oct 31
American Eel 6 50 All Year
Monkfish (goose fish) 17
11 tail length		 Any number All Year
American Shad No size limit 5 All Year
Hickory Shad No size limit 5 All Year
Yellowtail flounder 13 No Limit All Year
Oyster Toadfish 10 3 July 16 - May 14
Horseshoe crabs No size limit 5 All Year
Blue Crab†
Hard Shell
Soft Shell
Peeler/Shedder††
4 1/2"
3 1/2"
3"		 50 All Year
All other Crabs† No size limit 50 All Year
American lobster†
LMA 6 (Long Island Sound, Rec,
permit required)		 3 5/16" carapace length 6 All Year
American lobster†
LMA 4 (Atlantic Ocean, Rec,
permit required)		 3 3/8" carapace length 6 All Year
RECREATIONAL FISHING REGULATIONS FOR SHARKS
CATEGORY SPECIES MINIMUM
SIZE LIMIT		 DAILY
POSSESSION
LIMITS
Large and Small
Coastal Sharks
and
Pelagic Sharks		 Blacknose, Blacktip, Blue, Bonnethead, Bull, Finetooth, Great Hammerhead, Lemon, Nurse, Oceanic Whitetip, Thresher, Poreagle, Sandbar, Scalloped Hammerhead, Shortfin Mako, Silky, Smooth Hammerhead, Spinner, Tiger,  54 inches
fork length#		 One Shark per vessel per trip
Atlantic Sharpnose No Size Limit
Prohibited Sharks Atlantic Angel, Basking, Bigeye Sand Tiger, Bigeye Sixgill, Bigeye Thresher, Bignose, Carribean Reef, Carribean Sharpnose, Dusky, Galapagos, Longfin Mako, Narrowtooth, Night, Sand Tiger, Sevengill, Sixgill, Smalltail, Whale, and White## No Possession Allowed No Possession Allowed
 
* Summer flounder may not have heads or tails removed or be otherwise cleaned, cut, filleted, or skinned until brought to shore, with the following exception: The white side fillet or white skin only of a legal size fluke may be removed to use as bait.  The carcass of the fluke with dark side completely intact must be retained for inspection of size limit and counts against possession limit.
 
** Marine Waters -- South of the George Washington Bridge
 
*** The customer of any party/charter boat who takes more than 25 Scup from Sept 1 - Oct 31 or takes two striped bass from Apr 15 - Dec 15 must possess an original dated receipt from the licensed vessel.
 
† Lobsters & crabs in spawn (eggs visible thereon) may not be taken or possessed.
 
†† Peeler or shredder crabs are hard blue crabs which have a fully formed soft shell beneath the hard outer shell and the impending shedding process is evidenced by the white sign along the outer rim of the paddle-like appendages on the crab's fifth pair of legs.
 
# Fork length means the straightline measurement of a fish from the tip of the snout to the fork of the tail.  The measurement is not made along the curve of the body.
 
## A person may fish for white sharks with rod & reel, provided the person releases such fish immediately with a minimum of injury and that fish may not be removed from the water.
 
Other provisions:
  • All landed sharks must have head, tails and fins attached.
  • No sale allowed.
  • No finning
TL = Total Length
 
  


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