I want to know when the snapper season is this year, i know they changed it to an 11 day season.
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I want to know when the snapper season is this year, i know they changed it to an 11 day season.
I've heard they are working on extending it actually
I just found out that it opens june 1st and is 11 day.
Starts on June 1st. It is only 11 days, but they are trying to get it changed. Sighting that the research done on the fish populations are done very poorly. We should know something within a few weeks
i think its cuz all them tree hugin ppl that think its bad to kill any and all fish and game species. really makes me mad because without fisherman there would be an overpopulation of fish
I agree, what really gets me is that they have proven that they could extend the limit to 10 and still have plenty of fish to go around.Quote:
Originally Posted by southernfishin
ya what really makes me mad is that u cant hardly catch any grouper or other bottom fish cause of all the snapper. as soon as ya drop down u got a snapper on its not even a challenge ur like guranteed a snapper every timeQuote:
Originally Posted by AustinLuke11
That shows that yer Fed Gubmint fish mono culture program is working.Quote:
Originally Posted by southernfishin
Could this be part of the problem (undersized fish caught and sold commercially)
this was recently taken at a Bon Secour seafood market...
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I think the problem is that the gubmint doesn't read their own reports. The snapper population/recruitment around here is habitat limited. The population is jammed into the available habitat.
But again, the Feds say that if they let us catch a reasonable amount of fish here in Alabama, then all the Florida fish will swim this way. We keep getting what comes out of the south end of that northbound bull.
EDIT: I would add that, logically, what is happening is that 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?Quote:
Originally Posted by frednic
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
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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." :mad:
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. . .
Soon it will be open only on days of the week starting with the letter R.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pier#r