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Current Events

New jersey Outdoor Alliance - "We've got your back"Text Box: New Jersey Boat Sale & Expo

February 23 - 26, 2012
New Jersey Convention Center
97 Sunfield Avenue
Edison, NJ08837

Text Box: World Fishing & Outdoor Exposition
Rockland Community College
Suffern, New York

March 1 - 4, 2012
Show Hours: 

Thursday ............... 1:30pm-9pm		Admission Prices
Friday ................... 1:30pm-9pm 
Saturday ............... 9:30am-7pm		Adults		   $12
Sunday ................. 9:30am-5pm 		Children (5 - 11) $3

Text Box: The Saltwater Fishing expo
Garden state Exhibit Center
Somerset, NJ

March 16 - 18, 2012
Show Hours: 

Friday .................. 12noon-8pm
Saturday ................ 10am-6pm
Sunday .................. 10am-5pm
Admission Prices
Adults                               $11
Children (5 - 11)                 $3
Under 5 years                    Free
Text Box: New Jersey bans the catch and sale of river herring after failing to provide adequate data

New Jersey has shut down its river herring fishery partly because it does not have the personnel or the funding to collect the data it needs.

That means fishermen who net the herring, mostly for the bait business, can no longer do so. Recreational anglers, including fly fishermen, no longer may target them. If an angler catches a river herring by accident, it now must be thrown back.

Commercial fishermen who work offshore and land river herring as an accidental by-catch of squid, mackerel and Atlantic herring operations, also cannot sell them in New Jersey.

State Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Bob Martin closed the fishery in state waters Thursday, said Brandon Muffley, head of the state Bureau of Marine Fisheries. 

By RICHARD DEGENER