One good thing came out of this is that I was told that we will be able to legally use fluke bellys or back from a legal sized fluke we catch, the rack must be kept onboard and will count as one of the fish towards your limit, Wow how generous

GALLOWAY — An unhappy consensus to meet 2008 recreational fishing cutbacks with a new round of summer flounder fishing limits was approved tonight by the state Marine Fisheries Council, which also backtracked from its controversial Feb. 11 rejection of a ban on the commercial harvest of horseshoe crabs.
The council voted unanimously to move the minimum summer flounder size up to 18 inches this year, from 17.5 inches in 2007. The daily maximum catch per angler stays the same at eight fish, and that combination should yield a season that runs from May 24 to Sept. 7, a week shorter than last year.
That is, unless the federal government sees recreational fishermen overrunning their allocation again. That's the danger if the council had tried to go with a higher minimum size in hopes of prolonging the season to October, said Ray Bogan, a Point Pleasant Beach lawyer and adviser to recreational groups.
On horseshoe crabs, the council approved a motion by member and Stafford bayman Joseph Rizzo to recommend a "zero harvest" horseshoe crab limit for 2008, with the potential for a 100,000 males-only crab harvest should the fishery be reopened.
After the council narrowly split and refused to endorse an extension of the two-year-old moratorium on crabbing, environmental activists quickly got state legislators to propose bills that would ban taking the crabs. The crabs' eggs are a major food source for migratory red knot shorebirds that stop at Delaware Bay every spring, and after low bird counts in South America this winter there's a renewed call to have the species declared endangered.
A zero harvest "would take a lot of heat of the Legislature," Rizzo told fellow council members. The proposal would still need approval from state environmental Commissioner Lisa Jackson before the 2008 regulations can be changed.