POINT PLEASANT BEACH — The owner of a commercial vessel based here and the captain were both charged with illegally harvesting thousands of pounds of summer flounder and black sea bass.
Alda Gentile, 53, of Speonk, N.Y., the owner of the trawler Atlantic Queen, and Captain William Jeffery Stanley, 44, of Brick are charged with landing 2,397 pounds of summer flounder and more than 1,208 pounds of black sea bass following a 10-day fishing trip that returned in the overnight of Jan. 24-25. The vessel was permitted to harvest a maximum of 200 pounds of summer flounder and 100 pounds of black sea bass, according to the state Division of Fish and Wildlife which issued the summonses. Read More
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