Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries biologists on a regularly scheduled sampling trip assisted in the rescue Wednesday of five offshore fishermen whose vessel inadvertently struck an oil platform.[…]
The possibility of reallocating the red snapper quota will likely be a hot topic at next week’s Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council meeting in New Orleans, although it’s not even officially on the agenda.[…]
Watch Cox Sports Television tonight as Sportsman TV host Greg Hackney and crew head out of the mouth of the Mississippi River in search of red snapper, mangroves, grouper and other reef fish.[…]
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries recently announced recreational fishing for gray triggerfish will close in Louisiana waters at 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 15.[…]
Lance “Coon” Schouest’s elusive quest to land a new state record tarpon will have to wait.[…]
With the recent announcement by NOAA Fisheries confirming a 14-day fall red snapper season starting Oct. 1 in federal Gulf of Mexico waters, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries announced state waters will open during the same time period.[…]
As reported by LouisianaSportsman.com last Tuesday, NOAA Fisheries confirmed on Friday there will be a 14-day red snapper recreational season beginning on Oct. 1.[…]
A bipartisan coalition of lawmakers introduced legislation in Washington, D.C. yesterday supporting a coordinated Gulf states partnership that would chart a new course for the management of red snapper, according to a press release.[…]
Despite higher-than-anticipated catch estimates from the June season, it appears there will, in fact, be a 14-day federal recreational red snapper season beginning Oct. 1, officials told Louisiana Sportsman late Tuesday afternoon.[…]
With the potential 21-day federal red snapper season that was slated to start Oct. 1 in jeopardy, the Louisiana Department of WIldlife and Fisheries reminded state anglers Friday the weekend-only season ends on Sept. 29.[…]
During patrol inspections of 20 boats in the Gulf of Mexico this past weekend, agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries cited three Texas men in two separate cases for alleged red snapper violations, according to a press release.[…]
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries said today that the fall red snapper season initally announced in July is unlikely to take place in the wake of federal fisheries managers’ announcement earlier this week that new catch estimates indicate the 2013 recreational quota already has been surpassed.[…]
Preliminary catch estimates were significantly higher than expected for the 2013 recreational red snapper season, according to a press release from the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council.[…]
NOAA Fisheries is proposing a potential 21-day supplemental recreational red snapper fishing season beginning on Oct. 1 and is seeking public input on the proposed rule that would increase the commercial and recreation quotas in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a news release.[…]
The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission recently approved a Notice of Intent to establish recreational and commercial regulations for the harvest of tripletail, according to a press release.[…]
With recreational landings increasing and the possibility that the population is declining, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries has announced a bag limit of ten vermilion snapper within the 20-fish aggregate reef fish bag limit, according to a press release from the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council.[…]