The 2024 commercial summer flounder quota allocated to New York has been harvested. Effective 0001 hours December 21, 2024, fishing vessels issued a Federal permit for the summer flounder fishery may no longer land summer flounder in New York for the remainder of the 2024 calendar year. The Division of Marine Resources of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is closing its commercial summer flounder fishery to state permitted vessels and dealers, effective 0001 hours on December 21, 2024. We are closing the Federal summer flounder commercial fishery in New York to align with the closure of the state fishery and promote consistency between state and Federal management measures.

Vessel owners issued Federal permits must continue to complete and submit vessel logbooks for all other species landed. Additionally, dealers issued Federal permits for summer flounder may not purchase summer flounder from federally permitted vessels that land in New York for the remainder of the calendar year. Federally permitted dealers must also continue to report all fish purchases from any vessel.