The
recreational fishing season for Greater Amberjack will open in state
waters of the Gulf of Mexico on January the 1st.
The
greater amberjack season has been closed since September the
10th.
The
temporary closure was put into place in state waters after federal
regulators estimated that fishermen had exceeded the 2016 annual
federal recreational quota and closed the greater amberjack season in
federal waters in June.
Fishermen
are only allowed to catch 395 thousand pounds of greater amberjack in
the Gulf each year as a way to protect the fishery.
Greater
Amberjack is considered overfished which means the population is too
low and is also undergoing overfishing which means too many are being
caught each year.
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