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Central Scrutinizer

The official season projection isn't final yet from NMFS, as they can't set the federal dates until all of the state set their state water seasons. That being said, the states are projected to catch 77-79% of the private angler annual catch target within state waters, which leaves a scant 21-23% of the catch for fed waters.

So I imagine the seasons will run 18, maybe 23 hours this year!!!!

Read all about the latest @ www.gulfcouncil.org
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Rebecca of Sunnybrookfarm · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 01 May 2008 Posts: 3974

its an utter and complete failure....the recent ruling on amendment 28, well, I don't even want to get started....

I did see a potential beacon of light though, the new amendments for LA, MS, and AL to manage recreational harvest out to 200 miles? a new flavor of regional management? or is this the old bait and switch technique to enable the GC fake another two years of hope for the recreational fisherman while ratcheting down even more draconian regulations in the end?

in similar business, see you in Tampa in a couple weeks?
becky
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Oil Field Trash II · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 25 Mar 2008 Posts: 1560

fish people.

what is the effect of red snapper over population at wrecks, reefs, etc?

I have been curious to what happens to toehr species when snapper become so prolific that they're the only thing you can catch.

deputydawg · Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2017 9:10 am Post subject:

Just another year of BS!!!

I haven't got over the AJ closure yet!!! Twisted Evil

CHRISLAYNE · Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2017 9:29 am Post subject:

Is it worth coming down for the usual June 1st opening of the Federal Waters for Red Snapper?

Or with the craziness of the fed season, is it just as productive now to fish state waters?

Central Scrutinizer · Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2017 9:35 am Post subject:

Oil Field Trash II · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 25 Mar 2008 Posts: 1560

wait, I thought if you left from a state boat ramp, you could return with a state limit?

loco4fishn · Pony Mullet Joined: 25 Oct 2012 Posts: 78 Location: Texas

SandJKENNELS · Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2017 5:06 pm Post subject:

Follow the $$$$$$$$$$ and you find who's behind this stupidity.
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Oil Field Trash II · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 25 Mar 2008 Posts: 1560

2 or 5 day snapper season while commercial guys go at it day after day?
allegedly exceeding the recreational AJ quota in 2016? (Where the f does the quota come from? are we supposed to believe they actually know how many AJs are in the GOM?)

Now for 2017, They've shut the rec AJ season down in March, when there actually becomes an opportunity to clear the jetties. Meanwhile, you can bet your supple bum that amberjack will be the fish of the day at dozens of restaurants all over the gulf coast. as long as the fish markets are happy is all that matters I guess.

the hell with these bastages. Maybe I can fish for fcking jack crevelle, unless I go buy some catch shares from people like the fish stock broker trying to sell them on the classified page. It's time for the states to take back these waters. Or the people. The federal government is out of control.

mechdave · Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2017 8:02 pm Post subject:

They eat everything. I go to spots where I used to catch grouper, mangrove, vermilion and other assorted fish. Now all I catch are the endangered ARS. If you drag a ribbon fish and bump the boat into neutral, it ARS on every time. Same thing is happening in Florida with the Goliath grouper.
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lifeaquatic · Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2017 2:26 pm Post subject:

Uh-oh, I blinked!

awesum · Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2017 6:25 am Post subject:

"Don't blink or you might miss 2017's THE red snapper season"

Since it hasn't been a "season" in a good number of years I make the motion that heretofore it be referred to as "Red Snapper Day" Rolling Eyes

Central Scrutinizer · Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2017 9:50 am Post subject:

Oil Field Trash II · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 25 Mar 2008 Posts: 1560

maybe.... just maybe, The all mighty Roy Crabtree isn't so effin smart if we keep going over the quota in a 3 day period.