Longear & Dollar Sunfish in NJ?

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Pumpkinseed

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Next month free fishing day in New Jersey is June 14th & 15th, so I want to plan my trip.

I came across this page: http://jcianci.tripod.com/common.html
which claims that Longear and Dollar sunfish are not only found in NJ, but are common.
This came as a surprise to me, since we don't have these fish in Pennsylvania, which leads me to suspect this information might be wrong.

Can anyone in NJ confirm this as true? and if it is, where can they be found?


Thanks,

Steve
 
Hey another PA guy, welcome since I see you're fairly new :). I wouldn't think they'd have either of those fish if we don't. Sorry I couldn't help more but wanted to say welcome.
 
Yes, I'm planning a fishing trip, not looking to buy.

I doubt NJ has them, probably somebody misidentified some pumpkinseed that got them on some list or another.

I emailed the author, but the email address is no longer valid.
 
Pumpkinseed said:
Next month free fishing day in New Jersey is June 14th & 15th, so I want to plan my trip.

I came across this page: http://jcianci.tripod.com/common.html
which claims that Longear and Dollar sunfish are not only found in NJ, but are common.
This came as a surprise to me, since we don't have these fish in Pennsylvania, which leads me to suspect this information might be wrong.

Can anyone in NJ confirm this as true? and if it is, where can they be found?


Thanks,

Steve
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I don't believe that you can legally keep longear in Pennsylvania though as they are listed as endangered in Pennsylvania. Dollar sunfish would be ok though since they are not native to Pennsylvania.
 
bjbass said:
I don't believe that you can legally keep longear in Pennsylvania though as they are listed as endangered in Pennsylvania. Dollar sunfish would be ok though since they are not native to Pennsylvania.
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I had forgotten about that, a permit is required to bring in and keep and endangered fish.

I was doing a little research on the NJ Division of Fish and Wildlife site, and Warmouth is considered an invasive species in the state with a kill on catch decree. I wouldn't mind having one of those, but they are also on the PA endangered list. Those silly warmouth in NJ need to swim across the Delaware, then they go from public enemy #1 to a precious protected resource...
 
Pumpkinseed said:
I had forgotten about that, a permit is required to bring in and keep and endangered fish.

I was doing a little research on the NJ Division of Fish and Wildlife site, and Warmouth is considered an invasive species in the state with a kill on catch decree. I wouldn't mind having one of those, but they are also on the PA endangered list. Those silly warmouth in NJ need to swim across the Delaware, then they go from public enemy #1 to a precious protected resource...
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Haha I agree about the warmouth! They are sweet. Yeah I get confused about all of the regulations that we have as for instance I think we can keep candidate species, but not endangered or threatened. I have read the laws over and over to make sure that it would be legal to have a bowfin since they are candidate and I think that is OK. I did contact the PFBC at one point to find out if you can keep endangered species if you can prove that you purchased them and not caught them. The answer is that it does not matter if you buy them that you still own an endangered species to PA. I need to look though because sometimes there are I think are some longears on zimmerman's fish that I think are listed as Missouri longear or something. I need to see if they are the same species classification as they are really sweet looking and look nothing like other longears.
 
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