Crime & Safety
Fishing Illegally Off Piermont Pier
Environmental Conservation officers checked out anonymous complaints.

PIERMONT, NY — The New York Department of Environmental Conservation reports two men were caught catching striped bass off Piermont Pier. The season for stripers is closed.
ECOs Melissa Burgess and Corey Hornicek patrolled Piermont Pier in Rockland County Jan. 29 after receiving an anonymous complaint that striped bass were being kept during the closed season. They saw four men fishing from shore. Hornicek interviewed two of them, both of whom possessed valid fishing licenses, and found nothing amiss.
Burgess interviewed the other two.
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She learned one had never possessed a fishing license and the other had an expired license. Both men claimed to have only been fishing for 20 minutes with no luck.
However, after the ECOs surveyed the area, four illegal stripers were recovered. The man with the expired fishing license admitted to catching one striper he had hidden under the ice. The man without a license admitted that he had caught three stripers.
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The four striped bass were seized and the men were issued three tickets returnable to the Village of Piermont Court.
PHOTO: tagged striped bass/ DEC website
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