Had an interesting conversation at the fish house last week. When you factor in the American snapper boats fishing in Mexico and Central America it's hard to come up with a real TAC number. With itsĪpparent unwillingness to move forward rather than backward, it seems that NOAAįisheries is just not the agency to lead us there. Place to chart an innovative future for this troubled fishery. Independent assessment of the red snapper population in hand, the tools are in With the new state data systems and a ground-breaking Information plugging holes in a failed system.ĭespite the best efforts of Congress and the Gulf states,Īnglers are likely to bear the brunt of yet another federal-agency-createdĬrisis in red snapper. ButĬongress and the public should not allow the agency to waste this valuable new Week with a stop-gap temporary measure to address this latest absurdity. Or the Council could pull a rabbit out of its hat this Gift-wrapped numbers into its decrepit management system and salvage a seasonįor Mississippi and Alabama.
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The full results of the Count are currently under reviewĪnd have not been fully released yet. This is a stunning failure for an agency supposedly dedicated to Investigators from 11 institutions around the region scoured the Gulf and foundĪ red snapper population at least three times larger than NOAA Fisheries Richard Shelby (R-AL), Congressĭedicated $10 million for an independent, two-year project. This effort at a true assessment of the Gulf red snapper populationĬame about after anglers, managers and Congress lost all faith in the dataĬoming out of the federal stock assessment process. The same time, preliminary results of the Great Red Snapper Count have been NOAA Fisheries says, is that Alabama and Mississippi are wildly overfishing In other words, the states abandoned a broken system, built aīetter one, and now are being told to return to the broken system. Go through a hazy mathematical conversion to produce harvest results in the old
– announced last year that the state recreational data must be recalibratedīack into the MRIP data “currency” for management. NOAA Fisheries – the agency charged with managing the nation’s marine fisheries Success, with better data, longer seasons and higher angler satisfaction. By any metric, state management has been a Managers have mostly stayed within their assigned snapper quotas and are evenĪble to take into account factors like weather events and wave heights to Their own data systems, which are far more robust and timely than MRIP. Gulf states were convinced they could do a better job and set about designing Three-days despite what appeared to be a booming red snapper population. Under MRIP, angler seasons had dwindled to just That shift in management came after anglers and managersĪlike lost all faith in the data coming out of the federal Marine Recreational Recreational anglers in the red snapper fishery with their own state-based The past several years, the Gulf Coast states have been managing their private This is happening is a testament to an agency in desperate need of new Will be a dramatically shorter red snapper season for offshore anglers in those The annual catch limit for recreational anglers fishing from their own boats byĪ staggering 52% in Mississippi and 62% in Alabama. Man-made crisis in red snapper management. Mississippi and Alabama are likely to be stunned at the outcome of yet another The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council meets this week, anglers in 600 FS Manufacturers Forums (now merged into BOATING).
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