Two months have passed since the state's Marine Fisheries Commission was supposed to approve new protections for flounder, but fishermen are still catching them under the same rules.
A fight between commercial and recreational fishermen has stymied discussion, with commissioners disagreeing over even the rules for holding meetings. Though some commissioners say a change is urgently needed to help the fish, the group will not meet until Nov. 18.
“We won’t be really able to impact southern flounder until September of 2016,” at-large commissioner Chuck Laughridge said. “If we have to have this meeting in November, we will have in effect shirked all of our duties.”
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