Unlike the past, where snapper fishers competed for the catch in brief, 10-day-long fishing seasons each month, Gulf commercial snapper fishers now are assigned individual, personalized quotas they ...

When Eric Schmidt called the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to report a tagged red snapper, Justin Solomon in the Jacksonville office was in disbelief at what he was hearing. “He ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council says the commercial harvest season of red snapper will close next Tuesday, Sept. 14. The harvest closure applies to both federal ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The federal government plans to increase observation of the commercial snapper-grouper fishery from North Carolina to east Florida, with an eye to improving population assessments ...

As red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico show signs of a rebound after stringent limits on fishing for more than two years, fisheries regulators have voted to increase the amount of snapper that can be ...

(CN) – Decades before artificial reef building was a scientific exercise carried out with public-private partnerships, local charter boat captains in Orange Beach, Alabama would haul chicken coops, ...

Recreational anglers in Atlantic waters from Key West to North Carolina — and every Florida inlet in between — will get just 24 hours to fish for and keep coveted red snapper, a fish that's great for ...

Recreational fishing advocacy groups are opposed to a push that would implement catch-shares for red snapper because the move would make permanent a large commercial percentage of the annual quota.

Commercial fishers have filed suit against the federal government for allowing the recreational sector to catch what they say are too many red snapper. Commercial fishers have sued the federal ...

Read full article: Gov. DeSantis announces 70-day red snapper fishing season Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis holds news conference in Panhandle. Read full article: Brevard Renaissance Fair won’t go on next ...

The National Marine Fisheries Service says that the commercial fishery for red snapper in Gulf of Mexico Federal waters will open at noon on Oct. 1, and close at noon on Oct. 10. The 2002 Gulf of ...

Red snapper anglers from Jupiter to Jacksonville must feel as if they have been punked. Federal fishery managers announced Friday afternoon that they will get a two day recreational fishing season in ...