Red Snapper season ends on Monday

If you are a red snapper fishermen, you’d better get busy fishing because the season will end after this weekend.

This summer’s recreational red snapper season in the Gulf of Mexico will close on Monday, July 18.

This one of the shortest snapper season’s Florida has ever seen – it only began on June the 1^st.

The FWC said shortening the fishing season in Gulf state waters this year will help to avoid a harvest overrun and continue to rebuild red snapper populations so that longer red snapper fishing seasons will be possible in the future.
Gulf red snapper stocks are rebuilding but are still considered to be undergoing overfishing, which means that red snapper are being caught faster than they can reproduce. 
It is possible there could be an additional harvest season for red snapper in the Gulf at the summer’s end if Federal regulators also decide to implement a supplemental season.


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