Mississippi’s offshore sport fishermen, reeling from the announcement of an 11-day red snapper season, which could yet be shortened again, can learn more about and provide input into the federal fishery management of the Gulf of Mexico at a meeting May 6 in Biloxi. […]
Under the Gulf of Mexico Headboat Cooperative exempted fishing permit, 18 headboats started fishing for American red snapper on Jan. 1 and can fish through the end of snapper season on July 11. […]
State and federal officials announced today that there will be a 14-day recreational red snapper season for fishermen for the first two weeks of October. […]
Red snapper season arrives this month, and with a two-fish limit, everyone wants to know how to catch the big ones. […]
Reading between the lines of the crazy red snapper saga playing out in the Gulf of Mexico, in state and federal agency offices and, now, in court rooms, one aspect appears obvious. […]
When Mississippi received a six-day extension to its red snapper season on May 23, fisheries biologists at the Department of Marine Resources scoffed at the idea. […]
The 2013 recreational red snapper fishing season begins June 1, the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources announce […]
With the opening day of the red snapper season still over a week away, Mississippi fishermen have already hooked a surprise catch. […]
Red snapper season has been extended for six days because of rough seas that have prevented anglers from reaching the offshore fishing grounds, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced today (June 29). The season is now set to close at 12:01 a.m. on July 17, NOAA said.
Plenty of snapper live off Mississippi’s Gulf Coast. Just because red snapper season has ended doesn’t mean you can’t catch other varieties of hard-fighting, delicious snapper, including lane, vermilion and gray, as part of your aggregate of 10 reef fish. […]
Many years ago, a captain taught me the secret of little spots for big snapper — sunken washing machines. On that fishing trip, the captain asked me, “Do you want to catch a big snapper?” I replied, “Sure I do.” The captain smiled and said, “Okay, we’ll catch them out of the washing machine. […]
Fishery managers on Thursday (Sept. 21) approved an extension to the red snapper fishing season to begin on Oct. 1, with fishing allowed only on Fridays through Sundays until Nov. 22, the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council announced. […]
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