SportFishing and Charters Forum - Red Snapper Regulation Summary..

Correct me if I'm wrong here:

If the fish are too big, we catch too many pounds and we need a shorter season.

If the fish are too small, they aren't growing fast enough, and we need a shorter season.

Anyone know of any scenario that results in a longer season with more fish?

I am beginning to think that the snapper have actually hired a lobbyist.

I am beginning to think that the snapper have actually hired a lobbyist.

:rofl:

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I am beginning to think that the snapper have actually hired a lobbyist.


:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Correct me if I'm wrong here:

If the fish are too big, we catch too many pounds and we need a shorter season.

If the fish are too small, they aren't growing fast enough, and we need a shorter season.

Anyone know of any scenario that results in a longer season with more fish?

There is none, because the corrupt system doesn't want there to be.

"We’ve got to come to grips with the fact that we’re not going to get a longer season,” Crabtree said. He suggested the only way to reach a longer season might be “something radical” such as switching to a one fish per day limit or issuing tags to anglers that allow each person to catch a certain number of snapper per year".


“Yeah, we’re doing something wrong,” said Roy Crabtree, the fisheries service official in charge of setting the annual catch limit. “We’re giving (recreational anglers) too many days... The only thing to do when we keep going over (the harvest limit) is to give them fewer days.”

http://blog.al.com/live/2012/02/shortest_snapper_season_ever.html

F and R

K&G ^^ :)
Yeah there is really nothing we can do but take it. We are getting screwed but not as bad as the upper gulf area. Texas, LA, and the rest of the pan handle that have ARS thick close in.. they get to catch them and close and gotta throw them right back. At least I don't see them unless we have a long trip.
They catch ARS like we catch grunts... Man I would be really pissed if I fished up there

K&G ^^ :)
Yeah there is really nothing we can do but take it. We are getting screwed but not as bad as the upper gulf area. Texas, LA, and the rest of the pan handle that have ARS thick close in.. they get to catch them and close and gotta throw them right back. At least I don't see them unless we have a long trip.
They catch ARS like we catch grunts... Man I would be really pissed if I fished up there


you should see them off Jax.

you should see them off Jax.

Or Canaveral:banghead:

Or Ponce

6 people caught our limit of 15-20lb Red Snappers in 20 minutes, 30 miles off St George Island last Sunday.