Thread: 11 day snapper season?

Originally Posted by frednic

the Feds are using the Alabama Reefs as a nursery to send fish out into neighboring waters.

Spot on Frednic, and who paid for and placed most all those structures?
My understanding is it was primarily sport fishermen with encouragement from the state. Somebody please correct me if that is not accurate.

May get even shorter!

Length of shortest Gulf recreational red snapper season ever already at risk | AL.com

Just hours after the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council voted Thursday to endorse an emergency rule to adopt the short season at its Baton Rouge meeting, Louisiana officials announced that their state waters were opening to the year-round harvest of the popular gamefish or until Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Secretary Robert Barham closed the fishery.Before Thursday's action, red snapper season in Louisiana state waters had been open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays only.
The bag and possession limit for the state season remains two fish per person at a 16-inch-minimum length.
Any additional Louisiana red snapper poundage landed above what federal fisheries managers used to estimate the 2014 season length would most likely reduce this season even further, National Marine Fisheries Service Southeast Region Administrator Roy Crabtree said during a previously scheduled Friday conference call with Gulf fishermen.

Bradley Byrne is working on it we will know in the next couple weeks he's going to try and get the 40 day season back or extend it read an article and that's all I heard...

Weather channel has an article on "fish to avoid and their alternatives". OMG. Get this recommendation:

"Management of snapper in most of the world is poor, and has resulted in overfishing of many populations,” according to the Environmental Defense Fund. Go for snapper from the Gulf of Mexico if possible."

Adding insult to injury:

"Only red and black grouper from the Gulf of Mexico are no longer being overfished. Avoid imported grouper altogether."

Also on their OK list is spiney lobster.

They do suggest that southern flounder be avoided altogether and discourage pompano, so the tree huggers of the world are not going to eat all of Alabama's fish. . .

Originally Posted by Pier#r

May get even shorter!

Length of shortest Gulf recreational red snapper season ever already at risk | AL.com

Soon it will be open only on days of the week starting with the letter R.