"It's very telling, you know?" As the morning wore on and the kids caught a handful of small fluke, none "keepers," Greenberg talked about how, after his parents' divorce, his father would take him out fishing, part of what he calls "the divorced-dad weekends, where we did what he thought dads were supposed to do".
New York fishermen caught 583,000 fluke last year, exceeding the quota by 61percentt.
"If an illegal immigrant doesn't commit a crime, either they just didn't get caught or it's a fluke of the situation".
All around us pink dolphins are fishing you catch a flash of their filed-down-looking flamingo-pink dorsal fins here, an occasional beak or fluke there.
New York anglers caught 49percentt more fluke than allotted last year, according to the federal Atlantic State Marine Fisheries Commission, which oversees fisheries regulations in 15 East Coast states.
"You can catch 100 fluke and not get one that big," he said, and put away the feather duster.
The guy catches the ball on his helmet is a fluke.
But there are still several vessels offering morning-trippers the chance to catch fluke, blackfish, striped bass, porgies and more.
And using videotape from his shows, he provides inshore fishing lessons on how to catch fluke, flounder and striped bass.
Mr. Beckwith estimated that 10 years ago, the Stonington fleet caught 700,000 pounds of fluke a year.
