Federal Fisheries regulators are making some changes to the Red Snapper Individual Fishing Quota Program in the Gulf of Mexico and are holding a series of public hearings around the Gulf Coast this week to meet with fishermen that will be affected by the changes. The proposed changes are designed to bring the red snapper program into line with a new grouper and tilefish IFQ program so that both programs will be merged into one online IFQ program with an updated format. Some of the changes that will take effect beginning January 1st include a requirement for pre-approved landing locations for both the red snapper and grouper/tilefish IFQ programs. There will also be a requirement for an IFQ vessel account for any person aboard a commercial vessel to land red snapper, groupers, or tilefishes and there will be changes in the share transfer rules that will require share transfers to be handled on-line on no longer by paper transaction. There are a few other changes also coming in January so commercial red snapper, grouper and tilefish fishermen should attend one of the workshops. There will be a workshop on Thursday, November 19th from 6 till 9 PM at the Franklin County Courthouse in Apalachicola.
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