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Article: FISHING; Party Boats Struggle With a Double Threat - New York Times
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- The New York Times
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- April 13, 2008
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FROM the perspective of the party-boat business, Dave Brennan has had it pretty good. His boat, the 90-foot Peconic Star II, is docked here 20 minutes from some of the area's best summer flounder fishing, and the Long Island Rail Road stops well within cooler-carrying range of his 150-passenger boat. So why, after some 20 years, is he thinking it might be time to get out of the business?''It's the fuel and the fishing regulations,'' Mr. Brennan said. ''Between the two of them, we're going to have a rough season this year. There's less time to go fishing, and it's going to cost us a lot more when we do go.'' Party boats, a seaside staple, are under siege from Belmar, N.J., to Montauk ...
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