Two words, “red” and “snapper,” are fighting words for Louisiana’s offshore recreational fishermen. Those words go hand-in-hand with all-too-valid claims of federal fisheries mismanagement at a time ...

Fisheries scientist and artist Elle Wibisono recently published a children’s book, “A Snapper Tale,” that features red-colored snappers native to Indonesia’s waters. Equipped with her extensive ...

Back in the not-so-long-ago days when the recreational red snapper season was dwindling to a very few days, the two-per-angler daily limit was more prized than it is today. This year’s two-snapper per ...

Red snapper has always been a high‑stakes fish in Texas, but the line between state and federal waters now... The post Texas ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — American red snapper are a fun species to catch and even more delicious to eat. The recreational season to keep red snapper runs through the end of July in the Gulf of Mexico with ...

HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — Recreational anglers in South Carolina can now fish for all 55 species in the red snapper-grouper complex, year-round, within 3 miles of state waters. Gov. Henry McMaster ...

A little over a year ago, in January, 2021, Stephen Goldfinch was throwing a cast net for bait in 20 feet of water about two miles off Bull Island, located just northeast of Charleston. “I was looking ...