No More Hope for Bringing Back Winter Flounder Fishing
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Winter flounder, like this one caught many years ago in the Quogue Canal, are effectively extinct as a fishery on Long Island, thanks to years of horrendous mismanagement by regulators.
Winter flounder, like this one caught many years ago in the Quogue Canal, are effectively extinct as a fishery on Long Island, thanks to years of horrendous mismanagement by regulators.
In the Field
- Publication: East Hampton Press
- Published on: Feb 14, 2023
- Columnist: Michael Wright
The winter flounder — like winter itself, it would seem — is officially dead on Long Island. In 1984, NOAA estimates that New York anglers caught about 7.5 million winter...
