The summer flounder season, or fluke, will start a lot earlier this year as the Marine Fisheries Council took advantage of a 16% quota bump to move the season to a May 2 start. The 2022 season will ...

Fishing for tautog (also called black fish) has been outstanding for the past four to five years. The fish have been abundant and quite large. This year, in both Rhode Island and Massachusetts, from ...

Chris Winkler, a fisherman based in Montauk, N.Y., was accused of falsifying records to sell over-quota fish. By Karen Zraick A Montauk, N.Y., fisherman accused of vastly exceeding legal limits on how ...

Long Island is surrounded by water, home to New York State’s four largest commercial fishing ports (Montauk, Hampton Bays, Shinnecock, Greenport), not to mention fleets of recreational anglers. And ...

Almost everything's hitting inshore, from doormat fluke and false albacore to a barrage of cutlass fish. One of the biggest fluke of the season, at least that got weighed in locally, was landed over ...