CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council says the commercial harvest season of red snapper will close next Tuesday, Sept. 14. The harvest closure applies to both federal ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The federal government plans to increase observation of the commercial snapper-grouper fishery from North Carolina to east Florida, with an eye to improving population assessments ...

Unlike the past, where snapper fishers competed for the catch in brief, 10-day-long fishing seasons each month, Gulf commercial snapper fishers now are assigned individual, personalized quotas they ...

Perth wholesalers are planning to fly in fish from as far away as New Zealand after a ban on catching some local species came ...

(CN) – Decades before artificial reef building was a scientific exercise carried out with public-private partnerships, local charter boat captains in Orange Beach, Alabama would haul chicken coops, ...

From today, commercial demersal fishing is banned along hundreds of kilometres of the WA coastline in an effort to recover ...

As red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico show signs of a rebound after stringent limits on fishing for more than two years, fisheries regulators have voted to increase the amount of snapper that can be ...

Recreational fishing advocacy groups are opposed to a push that would implement catch-shares for red snapper because the move would make permanent a large commercial percentage of the annual quota.

Recreational anglers in Atlantic waters from Key West to North Carolina — and every Florida inlet in between — will get just 24 hours to fish for and keep coveted red snapper, a fish that's great for ...

The National Marine Fisheries Service says that the commercial fishery for red snapper in Gulf of Mexico Federal waters will open at noon on Oct. 1, and close at noon on Oct. 10. The 2002 Gulf of ...

As the congressionally mandated deadline to end overfishing of red snapper by 2010 approaches, the longtime alliance between charter boat captains and recreational fishermen against the Gulf's ...