All Blog Posts Tagged 'HMS' (4)

NMFS just closed the Angling Category for large medium and giant bluefin from Great Egg Inlet, New Jersey North effective July 18th. The announcement below. This means anglers cannot fish or take giants that are 73" or greater. However anglers can fish for all other size classes, retain under the limits one fish and can catch, tag and release all others. If you are interested in… Continue

HMS/NOAA's bluefin tuna landings report to June 30th shows more bluefin were caught last year, 707 in 2009 versus 472 this year so far. That's a 66% decrease. I have heard reports that the quantities are still there, but the bigger fish are showing less. I will try and dig up more on this report and get…

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Folks - NMFS has issued 3 rule changes today that effect recreational anglers. Here is a screen shot of the rule changes and a link to view the PDF. The biggest change here is that NO small medium bluefin may be retained. Small mediums are classified as 59" to 73". Changes take effect June 12, 2010, so basically now. If you do catch small mediums, you can tag these tuna. See the Catch & Release page in this site to enroll for… Continue

Here are the 2009 Bluefin tuna landings as reported by HMS / NMFS. Note that the Angling category went way over quota landing 565.9 metric tons on a quota of 260.6 metric tons. Most of the overage occurred in the large school - small medium sized fish which are 60lb to less than 235lb tuna. This matches up with the size of the fish in two large cohorts we are seeing off the Carolinas in the Winter and North along the Mid Atlantic and North East states in summer. Any feedback on these numbers… Continue