From an e-mail from the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife:

The NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries), along with the NJDEP Division of Fish and Wildlife, is inviting the public to attend a Port Meeting on Tuesday, July 23, at 6 p.m. in Ocean County.

The Port Meeting will help saltwater anglers improve our marine fisheries by discussing best handling practices when releasing fish and learning about how anglers on other coasts are improving survival of angler released fish.

The meeting will cover such topics as the latest techniques, such as recompression devices, ways to reduce barotrauma effects (an increase in internal gas pressure that prevents fish from descending after being raised to the surface), release methods and devices, and programs that promote careful release and fish survival practices.

The public will be able to provide fisheries managers and scientists their ideas on how to best handle the fish they release.

The meeting will be at the Jersey Coast Shark Anglers Club in Brick.

For more information, including directions, see http://www.njfishandwildlife.com/news/2013/portmeeting.htm on the Division's website.

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