Sportfishing and Boating Newspaper in Ocean City, Maryland

ASMFC 2019 Winter Meeting Final Agenda and Meeting Materials Mid-Atlantic Council Seeks Public Input for Next Five-Year Strategic Plan Coastal Recreational Fisheries Forum set for Friday, April 26, 2019 MD closed cobia fishery from Jan 1 to April 30 Maryland sets tautog regulations Effective Jan 1, 2019 DNREC’s Division of Parks & Recreation to host public meeting on proposed changes in surf fishing program NOAA Seeks New Members for Marine Fisheries Advisory Committee NOAA Fisheries Seeks Comments on Proposed Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Specs Delaware to hold ASMFC hearing on Summer Flounder and Black Sea Bass recreational management on November 8 in Dover DNREC’s Division of Fish & Wildlife announces expansion of recreational black sea bass season

Maryland Closes Sea Bass Fishery January through February 2017

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

The Secretary of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, pursuant to COMAR 08.02.05.21F, announces that the recreational black sea bass fishery will be closed from 12:01 a.m. January 1, 2017 through 11:59 p.m. February 28, 2017. In order to implement the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Black Sea Bass, the Department will establish the season, catch limit, and minimum size for the recreational black sea bass fishery for the remainder of 2017 in a later notice.