The 2017 and 2018 commercial and recreational catch limits for summer flounder and the 2017 commercial quota for black seabass have been slashed by slashed by NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries).
Based on the recommendations of the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, NOAA has set the commercial quota for summer flounder at 5.66 million pounds (2,567 metric tons – MT) and the recreational limit at 3.77 million pounds (1,710 MT), down 30 percent from the current limit…
