MOBILE, Alabama – June 3, 2012 – For a growing group of scientists, regulators and fishermen, the red snapper has come to symbolize all that is wrong with the way the federal government manages the nation’s fisheries.
The time has come, they say, to take control of the snapper harvest away from the feds and give it back to the states.
At the center of the debate is this simple fact: Though snapper populations are the healthiest they’ve been for decades, the National Marine Fisheries Service set the shortest season in the history of the Gulf of Mexico, just 40 days long.
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