{"id":63612,"date":"2025-12-18T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/?p=63612"},"modified":"2025-12-16T14:37:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T19:37:23","slug":"news-2025-12-18-this-years-recreational-fishing-season-is-winding-down-we-still-need-your-input","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/news-2025-12-18-this-years-recreational-fishing-season-is-winding-down-we-still-need-your-input\/","title":{"rendered":"This Year&#8217;s Recreational Fishing Season is Winding Down \u2013 We Still Need Your Input!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image text-wrap-pic half\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/back-view-of-older-male-angler-wearing-gray-hat-and-shirt-while-fishing-in-ocean-water-under-partly-cloudy-blue-sky-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1641\" src=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/back-view-of-older-male-angler-wearing-gray-hat-and-shirt-while-fishing-in-ocean-water-under-partly-cloudy-blue-sky-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-58578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/njfw\/back-view-of-older-male-angler-wearing-gray-hat-and-shirt-while-fishing-in-ocean-water-under-partly-cloudy-blue-sky-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/njfw\/back-view-of-older-male-angler-wearing-gray-hat-and-shirt-while-fishing-in-ocean-water-under-partly-cloudy-blue-sky-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/njfw\/back-view-of-older-male-angler-wearing-gray-hat-and-shirt-while-fishing-in-ocean-water-under-partly-cloudy-blue-sky-1024x656.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/njfw\/back-view-of-older-male-angler-wearing-gray-hat-and-shirt-while-fishing-in-ocean-water-under-partly-cloudy-blue-sky-768x492.jpg 768w, https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/njfw\/back-view-of-older-male-angler-wearing-gray-hat-and-shirt-while-fishing-in-ocean-water-under-partly-cloudy-blue-sky-1536x985.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/njfw\/back-view-of-older-male-angler-wearing-gray-hat-and-shirt-while-fishing-in-ocean-water-under-partly-cloudy-blue-sky-2048x1313.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>As the 2025 black sea bass season draws to a close on December 31, please remember to submit any catch information that you may have collected this year. We have created a tally form optimized for <a href=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/for-hire-volunteer-catch-reporting-form.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">summer flounder and black sea bass<\/a> <i class=\"fa-solid fa-file-pdf text-danger\" title=\"Adobe Acrobat PDF File\"><\/i>, but welcome reports on any species caught throughout the year <a href=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/fishing\/marine\/volunteer-angler-survey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">using any of the forms<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for your support of this program! The data collected through these surveys is&nbsp;important to help us explore expanding the range of possible options for regulations in future years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the 2025 black sea bass season draws to a close on December 31, please remember to submit any catch information that you may have collected this year. We have created a tally form optimized for summer flounder and black sea bass , but welcome reports on any species caught throughout the year using any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":254,"featured_media":58580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fishing","category-saltwater-recreational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63612"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63631,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63612\/revisions\/63631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}