CNB Hunting/Fishing Delaware News: Recreational Black Sea Bass Season 4 Days Earlier

DOVER (May 6, 2015) – DNREC Secretary David Small has signed an Emergency Order changing the opening day of recreational black sea bass season to May 15 rather than the previously established May 19 date, thereby keeping Delaware’s tidal finfish regulations consistent with revised federal recreational black sea bass season regulations published March 25. Delaware’s normal regulatory process takes four months, so the Emergency Order kept Delaware consistent with federal regulations.

 A black sea bass management region extending from Delaware through North Carolina is recognized by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s summer flounder, scup, and black sea bass Interstate Fisheries Management Plan. Other states in this management region have already stated their intent to open their seasons on May 15, 2015.