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Mid-Atlantic Council to Hold Public Hearings for Chub Mackerel Amendment Joint Council Meeting with ASMFC Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Board in Alexandria, VA: May 10, 2017 Survey Finds Resilient Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab Population Number of Spawning-Age Female Crabs up 31 Percent to Historic High ASMFC Summer Flounder, Scup and Black Sea Bass Board Conference Call Additional closure needed to assist beachnesters at the Point at Cape Henlopen State Park Retention Limit of Commercial Aggregated Large Coastal Shark and Hammerhead Shark Management Groups: Atlantic Region Reduced to 3 Sharks per Trip NOAA Fisheries Announces an Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Advisory Panel Meeting May 9-11, 2017 U.S. Reps. Graves, Green, Webster, Wittman Champion Federal Saltwater Fisheries Reform Ocean City Beach Replenishment Scheduled for Fall Mid-Atlantic Council to Hold Public Hearings for Squid Amendment

Age Determined for World Record Tautog

Monday, March 23, 2015

After analyzing the cheek bone of the 28.8 lb. world record tautog caught by Ken Westerfeld while fishing on the charter boat, "Fish Bound" with Capt. Kane Bounds, a New York state marine biologist has determined that the fish was 23 years old at the time it was captured.