“Anglers are seeing more red snapper off the coast of Northeast Florida than ever before,” he said in the release. “Widespread bottom closures that threaten Northeast Florida’s fishing ...

Senator Rick Scott, alongside Representatives John Rutherford and Darren Soto, has introduced the bipartisan, bicameral Red ...

Federal lawmakers from the U.S. state of Florida have introduced legislation to block NOAA Fisheries from closing the ...

Also similar bill was introduced in 2022. “Florida’s anglers deserve dependable access to red snapper fishing and it’s on us to ensure they do,” said Rutherford. “Let Floridians fish.” ...

But the American Sportfishing Association points out that the three-month closure would affect all hook-and-line fishing, including trolling. An angler vents a red snapper caught off the Florida coast ...

NOAA Fisheries wants to impose seasonal fishing restrictions on 55 species off Florida’s Atlantic coast to advance the recovery of red snapper, whose populations have suffered from overfishing.

“A recreational fishing closure ... would help rebuild red snapper stocks by implementing an annual “discard reduction season” between Cape Canaveral and the Florida-Georgia border.

Here we borrow from Florida Sportsman to ... and guess who's buying the whiskey! Fishing off Stuart with DayMaker charters, this angler reeled in a red snapper head after a shark caught up to ...