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  • Alabama's Snapper Check Program Gets an Upgrade

    Alabama's Snapper Check Program Gets an Upgrade

    Red snapper season is approaching.

  • New Video Panama Kayak Fishing - Cubera Snapper! VIDEO

    New Video Panama Kayak Fishing - Cubera Snapper! VIDEO

    I put a lot of time into editing because our experience was so epic it was hard for me to put together a video that makes the viewer feel the same.

  • Red Snapper Fishing Opens

    Red Snapper Fishing Opens

    The season will consist of four-day weekends, Friday through Monday, beginning Friday, May 28, and continue until the private angler quota is projected to be met.

  • Red Snapper Count Reveals Decades of NOAA Inaccuracy

    Red Snapper Count Reveals Decades of NOAA Inaccuracy

    Red Snapper Count Reveals Decades of NOAA Inaccuracy This week, the public and Congress finally heard why nothing seemed to add up in federal management of Gulf red snapper. It turns out that NOAA just doesn’t count snapper very well.

  • Cited for Red Snapper Violations

    Cited for Red Snapper Violations

    Agents found the men in possession of 31 red snapper putting the men 25 over their daily possession limit.

  • SoCal father and daughters reel in trifecta catch involving a ferocious type of snapper

    SoCal father and daughters reel in trifecta catch involving a ferocious type of snapper

    At some point in the fight I start thinking, what IS this?

  • Red snapper season opening

    Red snapper season opening

    The private recreational angler red snapper season opens Saturday, June 1, 2019 for a projected 97-days in federal waters.

  • What is the problem with Red Snapper in the Gulf of Mexico?

    What is the problem with Red Snapper in the Gulf of Mexico?

    As the stock continues to show signs of recovery, fishermen are seeing more (and larger) red snapper in the population; however, the spawning potential of the population (the number of eggs produced by reproductively active females) is still lower than the rebuilding target.

  • Red Snapper Abundance in Gulf of Mexico Being Estimated by Scientific Team

    Red Snapper Abundance in Gulf of Mexico Being Estimated by Scientific Team

    A team of university and government scientists, selected by an expert review panel convened by the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium, will conduct an independent study to estimate the number of red snapper in the U.S. waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

  • Gulf Red Snapper Management Proposal from Legislators

    Gulf Red Snapper Management Proposal from Legislators

    Sen. Cassidy, Rep. Graves and Colleagues Propose a Better Way to Manage Gulf Red Snapper Washington, D.C. – The recreational fishing and boating community today applauded the introduction of the RED SNAPPER Act, a bill to improve the way the recreational red snapper fishery is managed in the Gulf of Mexico. The bill was introduced with bipartisan support in both chambers of Congress. Original cosponsors include Senators Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and John Kennedy (R-La.); and Congressmen Garret Graves (R-La.); Cedric L. Richmond (D-La.); Randy K. Weber, Sr. (R-Texas); Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.); Blake Farenthold (R-Texas); Wm. Lacy Clay (D-Mo.); Clay Higgins (R-La.); Steven M. Palazzo (R-Miss.); Austin Scott (R-Ga.); and Bradley Byrne (R-Ala.).

  • Texas Game Wardens Uncover Illegal Snapper Operation

    Texas Game Wardens Uncover Illegal Snapper Operation

    A network that allegedly violated recreational fishing regulations to an extreme was uncovered in a two-year investigation by Texas Game Wardens. Nearly 28,000 pounds of unlawfully-caught finfish, mostly red snapper, are alleged to have been illegally sold to 2 Houston restaurants for an estimated profit of over $400,000.

  • NOAA and States Focus on Red Snapper Enforcement

    NOAA and States Focus on Red Snapper Enforcement

    In order to better protect the red snapper fish stocks in the Southeast, NOAA's Office of Law Enforcement, alongside other state and federal natural resource enforcement agencies, will continue to conduct increased enforcement efforts focused on the commercial and recreational red snapper fisheries in Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic.

  • Coast Guard Interdicts Mexican Fishermen with 300 Illegal Red Snapper

    Coast Guard Interdicts Mexican Fishermen with 300 Illegal Red Snapper

    A lancha, or Mexican fishing boat, was seized along with 300 red snapper, 3 shark and fishing gear, near the U.S./Mexico border after the Coast Guard caught four men aboard the boat illegally fishing in U.S. territorial waters Feb. 24, 2017. U.S. Coast Guard photo.

  • Red Snapper Season Now Open Friday-Sunday

    Red Snapper Season Now Open Friday-Sunday

    LDWF to Open Fall Red Snapper Season in State Waters The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission, at its regularly scheduled October meeting, took action allowing recreational anglers to harvest additional red snapper in state waters beginning at 12:01 am on Friday, October 7, 2016, during weekends only. Weekends are restricted to Friday, Saturday and Sunday only.

  • Red Snapper Weekend Season Reopens

    Red Snapper Weekend Season Reopens

    2016 Gulf recreational red snapper state weekend season reopens Sept. 2 The 2016 recreational red snapper season in Gulf of Mexico state waters (shore to 9 nautical miles) will reopen Sept. 2 and remain open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays in September and October, and on Labor Day.

  • Gulf Red Snapper Season Set

    Gulf Red Snapper Season Set

    At its April 13 meeting in Jupiter, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) set the 2016 recreational red snapper season in Gulf of Mexico state waters.The 2016 season will open Saturdays and Sundays in May starting May 7.

  • Federal and State Agencies Seize 488 Red Snapper Caught off Texas Coast

    Federal and State Agencies Seize 488 Red Snapper Caught off Texas Coast

    Coast Guard crews stopped a recreational boat with approximately 1,900 pounds of red snapper Saturday, which was illegally caught in the Gulf of Mexico off Freeport and Galveston.

  • CSF Fisheries Director Testifies in Support of Red Snapper State Management

    CSF Fisheries Director Testifies in Support of Red Snapper State Management

    Yesterday, Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation (CSF) Fisheries Program Director Chris Horton joined eight panelists to testify before the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans on the Gulf States Red Snapper Management Authority Act (H.R. 3094).

  • NOAA Seeks Comments on Changes in Snapper-Grouper, Golden Crab, Dolphin and Wahoo Regulations

    NOAA Seeks Comments on Changes in Snapper-Grouper, Golden Crab, Dolphin and Wahoo Regulations

    NOAA Fisheries Seeks Comments on Proposed Changes for Regulations for Snapper-Grouper and Golden Crab in the South Atlantic, and Dolphin and Wahoo in the Atlantic Region

  • NOAA Threatens Recreational Harvest of Red Snapper, Says CCC

    NOAA Threatens Recreational Harvest of Red Snapper, Says CCC

    There's a lawsuit pending in the U.S. District Court in New Orleans that every recreational angler ought to be following like a hawk.