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 ...

A charter boat captain from Florida has angered commercial fishermen by comparing them to “old-time” plantation owners and sharecroppers in prepared testimony to Congress. A charter boat captain from ...

South Carolina game wardens recently found a McClellanville commercial fisherman illegally in possession of more than 100 pounds of protected red snapper, according to state wildlife officials. The ...

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 ...

A coalition of fishermen and their allies are up in arms over a measure that would reduce the portion of a popular type of fish commercial fishermen can catch in the Gulf of Mexico each year. The red ...

A high school graduate who spent three years researching local fishing has urged MPs to increase commercial size limits for harvesting snapper from 25cm to 30cm. Takapuna Grammar School graduate Chris ...

GRAND ISLE, LA (WVUE) - On the tip of Louisiana's coast, Dean Blanchard built his seafood business from nothing. "It's what made America great, is hard-working, good people," Blanchard says. But, he ...

Winston Churchill once wrote, "To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." The Gulf of Mexico red snapper allocation needs to change. The data used to set the current 51 percent ...

Last week NOAA Fisheries published a rule implementing an increase to the commercial and recreational quotas for red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico through 2017. For 2015, the red snapper allowable ...

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TALLAHASSEE — Commercial fishermen on Thursday criticized an agreement between Gulf states and the U.S. Commerce Department to extend the recreational red snapper fishing season in federal waters. Red ...