Source: Maureen Donald, NATIONAL FISHERMAN, 8/9/21

North Carolina’s summer flounder trawl fishery typically occurs in waters off New Jersey and New York, outside of the Southern flounder range, with the catches landed in North Carolina under the state’s summer flounder quota — the lion’s share among East Coast states at 27.44 percent. For the 2019-21 fishing seasons, the coastwide commercial quota is set at 11.53 million pounds, approximately a 49 percent increase over the previously set 2019 quota. Harvest of both summer and Southern flounder in North Carolina remained consistent for the past several years.

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