Public Hearings for Snapper Grouper Fishery Begin Next Week Issues include area closures to end overfishing of red snapper stock, deepwater closures for other species The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council is holding a series of public hearings regarding federal fisheries management measures proposed for 73 species in the snapper grouper management complex […]
South Atlantic Fishery Management Council to Hold Public Hearings on Snapper Grouper Management Issues The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council will hold a series of 7 public hearings from November 2 through November 16, 2009 regarding three amendments to the Council’s Snapper Grouper Fishery Management Plan for the South Atlantic Region. With the exception […]
RE: BLACK SEA BASS – RECREATIONAL – ATLANTIC OCEAN Dr. Louis B. Daniel III, Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, hereby announces that effective at 12:01 A.M., Monday, October 5, 2009 the following restrictions will apply to the recreational black sea bass fishery north of Cape Hatteras (35° 15’N Latitude): I. SEASON CLOSURE A. The recreational […]
HIJACKING FISHERIES MANAGEMENT How Pew Charitable Trusts has co-opted the management process using paid-for science and a well-oiled media machine. In late 2006, “Fisheries Face Collapse by 2048!” was the headline read and heard around the world – at least in the world of Washington, DC. It just so happens that Congress was debating the […]
