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Decision avoids bottom closures, but promises more of the same for frustrated red snapper anglers.

Federal management is driven by flawed data and regulations that threaten the economies of our coastal communities.

Express our strong support for a new state-led framework to ensure more effective, science-based stewardship of this critical fishery

Learn why Gulf red snapper anglers have it so much better, and what Atlantic states must do to help bottom fishermen. Click here or on the button below to read...

We share the frustrations expressed by the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council over the management trajectory of this fishery and NOAA’s insistence on drastic management action for a fishery that is neither overfished nor undergoing overfishing.

Federal agency insists significant restrictions are necessary to recover booming red snapper fishery.

Following the formal withdrawal of the proposed expansion of the 2008 North Atlantic Right Whale Vessel Strike Reduction Rule, the National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA) released the following statement

Federal agency creates another paper crisis to shut down bottom fisheries.

Forage fish, a critical food source for other species, are in decline up and down the Eastern Seaboard but menhaden decline in Maryland waters has advocates sounding the alarm.

NOAA acts unilaterally to limit season, indicates bottom closures to all fishing are likely.   News coming out of the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council meeting quickly went from bad…

June 10, 2024 Randy Blankinship Highly Migratory Species Management Division Office of Sustainable Fisheries (F/SF1) NMFS, 1315 East-West Highway Silver Spring, MD 20910 Dear Mr. Blankinship: The undersigned representatives of...