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Commission approves 70-day recreational red snapper season in Gulf state waters


The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) approved a 70-day recreational red snapper season for Gulf state waters at the April 16 meeting in Tallahassee. Red snapper is a popular species that has a strong economic impact for many coastal communities throughout Florida.

The 2015 season will start the Saturday before Memorial Day (May 23) and run through July 12, resume for all of Labor Day weekend (Sept. 5-7) and finish with Saturdays and Sundays throughout the rest of September and all of October, with the last day of harvest being Sunday, Nov. 1.

The 2015 Gulf federal waters recreational red snapper season has not been set yet and will be announced later this spring by NOAA Fisheries.

Guess that means we'll get a 4 hour federal season... :

Not really sure how this helps. Snapper are further out during much of this time. Something is better than nothing.

You know it is bad as many of them as there are out in Gulf and can't keep but two, what is wrong with the feds?

For those of us that "know" the waters, it doesn't make muchoice of a difference... but for those "Georgia boys" type folks thag come down and think they own the waters, this just means that they're down here a bit more often spending their money!

galantnole wrote:For those of us that "know" the waters, it doesn't make muchoice of a difference... but for those "Georgia boys" type folks thag come down and think they own the waters, this just means that they're down here a bit more often spending their money!