By Imy Brighty-Potts Something was awry in the waters off Long Island when several officers with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s (DEC) Division of Law Enforcement found a major poaching issue. Striped bass fishing season in marine waters and the Delaware River does not begin until mid-April, according to the New York DEC, but some audacious anglers decided to get an illegal head start and the Environmental Conservation Officers (EOC) were on the case. On April 6, ECO Brent McCarthy keenly spotted multiple individuals catching striped bass, and he witnessed the nau…
