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Board puts the hammer down on rockfish poachers September 9, 2010 Baltimore Sun, Outdoors Girl The Potomac River Fisheries Commission voted Thursday to revoke or suspend the fishing privileges of eight watermen convicted in federal court in the largest rockfish poaching scheme in the history of the Chesapeake Bay and the river. The harshness, and [...]

In the February 11th edition of the NY Post, Frank Crescitelli was spoke about the difficulty of catching striped bass poachers. He said: ”the sad truth is we could never hope to make these kinds of discoveries in New York because as hard as our DEC officers work, the fact is that there are only five [...]

From the March 2011 edition: “From the Chelsea Piers, on Manhattan, we ran down the Hudson River, under the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and east past Coney Island, struggling to keep up with Capt. Frank Crescitelli’s Fin Chaser. He carried the VIPs for the FCA Manhattan Cup, the Fisherman’s Conservation Association’s annual tournament, threading through the fleet, [...]

The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council met jointly with the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Board last week in Williamsburg, VA to set catch and harvest limits for summer flounder and scup. Although the Council had set limits for the 2012 fishing year in August, the Council received updated [...]