Snook off limits for another year

It will be another year without snook fishing in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission last week voted to keep the recreational harvest of snook in Gulf of Mexico waters closed for another year to offer the species additional protection after a 2010 cold kill devastated the population.

The decision came after an updated stock assessment that showed snook populations are improving in the Atlantic and are not in biological jeopardy in the Gulf.

The next assessment is due in 2015.

The recreational snook season was closed in Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic waters by executive order on January 16^th after the cold kill.

The Gulf of Mexico recreational season is expected to reopen September 1st, 2013.

Catch-and-release of snook will be allowed during the closure. 

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