The commercial fishing boat Little Ike returns to the Belford Seafood Co-Op in Middletown, N.J. after a 10-hour trip on Wednesday, April 29, 2020. Andrew Mills | NJ Advance Media ...

New Jersey’s fishing industry will receive $11 million to help cope with the coronavirus, part of the stimulus law known as the CARES Act. The allocation, the ninth highest among the 50 states ...

Trout season will open tomorrow, 10 days ahead of schedule for catch and release only. But now the question is, where can one go for bait since all the tackle shops are closed? The state's Fish ...

What are New Jersey's rules? New Jersey's Marine Fisheries Council approved a one-fish, daily bag limit and a 28- to 38-inch size limit for striped bass in all state waters.

Bear hunting in New Jersey would be suspended after this year under a plan announced by Gov. Phil Murphy on Monday. The New Jersey Fish and Game Council has a new amendment on the table to put ...

To help striped bass levels, the DEP will require anglers to use circle hooks when catch-and-release fishing for striped bass effective Jan. 1, 2021.

NJ Fishing Community Says COVID Aid Helped Keep Them Afloat Commercial fishing is an $8 billion industry in New Jersey, and the state has one of the largest recreational salt water fishing ...

John Vayda caught a record-breaking hybrid striped bass in the state of New Jersey and it weighed 16 pounds, 10 ounces, according to the NJ Division of Fish & Wildlife.

Gov. Phil Murphy said Monday that the state Fish and Game Council would suspend its long-controversial black bear hunt after this year and begin to focus on non-lethal management, vowing that 2020 ...

In early 2020, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration decided that herring boats like mine had to start paying for the federal monitors who sometimes ride along during fishing trips.

The NJDEP Division of Fish and Wildlife has confirmed a new state record in the New Jersey saltwater record fish program. A 90.6-pound Cobia was caught by Len Andalis of Philadelphia on Aug. 9 ...