The 2024 commercial summer flounder quota allocated to Massachusetts has been harvested. Effective 0001 hours September 6, 2024, fishing vessels issued a Federal permit for the summer flounder fishery may no longer land summer flounder in Massachusetts for the remainder of the 2024 calendar year. The Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries closed its commercial summer flounder fishery to state permitted vessels and dealers, effective 0001 hours on August 28, 2024.
Vessel owners issued Federal permits must continue to complete and submit vessel logbooks for all other species landed. Additionally, dealers issued Federal permits for summer flounder may not purchase summer flounder from federally permitted vessels that land in Massachusetts for the remainder of the calendar year. Federally permitted dealers must also continue to report all fish purchases from any vessel.
