NMFS Closes Summer Flounder Fishery in Maryland EEZ for Remainder of 1996

Summary

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has closed the summer flounder fishery in Maryland's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) due to the commercial quota being harvested, and all vessels with a Federal fisheries permit for the summer flounder fishery are prohibited from landing summer flounder in Maryland until the end of 1996.