Recently, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation police officers DeVito, Giarratana, Cacciola, and Simmons partnered with Officer Lepre from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to conduct a late-night commercial fishing enforcement detail in Suffolk County, NY.
The team boarded multiple commercial fishing vessels in Montauk and discovered multiple violations, including over the legal commercial limit of black sea bass, illegal late-night offloading of fluke and black sea bass, and failure to accurately document species/quantities of catch on vessel trip reports.
ECOs ticketed the captain of the boat for each violation, returnable to East Hampton Town Court.