Listened in to the meeting this morning...
Sounds like they are going back to 3 day weekends starting on July 13th for red snapper. They are trying to get the season to extend to labor day weekend like last year. The last 2 weeks of reported catches were 3% and 1% of the overall quota which appeared to help.
I also heard them mention potentially lowering limits on cobia and mangrove snapper based on problems in other gulf states... they mentioned Texas and Florida specifically. This came out of the Gulf Council meeting.
They specifically mentioned potentially changing the limit for cobia to 1 per person and 2 per vessel. There were no specific mentions of changes to limits on mangroves.
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