Tag Archives: Winter Flounder

Dredging restrictions on winter flounder habitat to be lifted because they don’t live there!

NOAA ScientistSTONE HARBOR – The big announcement at a dredging forum sponsored by the Cape May County Chamber of Commerce Monday, Oct. 19, was that restrictions on dredging related to winter flounder are going to be lifted locally.  LoBiondo said the announcement came as the result of a renewed commitment on the part of state and federal governments with work with local officials. LoBiondo said it was the work of a local task force that convinced the NMFS that the winter flounder don’t live here.  Read the rest here 13:32

Mystery fish halts Cape May Harbor dredging

Marina owners and commercial fishing docks in the Port of Cape May are banding together to fight a winter-time ban on dredging designed to protect a fish that doesn’t seem to even exist here. “I’ve never seen a  here. I’ve tried. I went fishing for them three times and never caught one,” said Bob Lubberman, owner of a marina here at Schellenger’s Landing. Read the rest here 22:00

A New PCR-Based Method Shows That Blue Crabs Consume Winter Flounder

Abstract Winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus) once supported robust commercial and recreational fisheries in the New York (USA) region, but since the 1990s populations have been in decline. Available data show that settlement of young-of-the-year winter flounder,,, Read more here  17:43

Funding: This project was funded by the Saltonstall Kennedy Program of the National Marine Fisheries Service of NOAA