The new regs are posted

[jonesrw]

The FWC finally updated their regs for 2012.

Gag grouper is closed for all of Jan, Feb, and March. Limit is now 2 per person.

Red grouper are now closed for all of Feb and March. Limit is now 3 per person.

No change in size limits, 22 inches for gag and 20 for red.

Red snapper season will be all of 48 days!! June 1 - July 18. What a joke. I keep hoping that THIS will be the year they finally get good data and open it up for a 5 or 6 month season. Not this year, AGAIN. :mad:

[Candy]

I'm shaking my head...there are so many Red Snappers out there that they are consuming other species at an unsustainable rate right now! :confused:

[jonesrw]

I guess our next seminar with the FWC will be to decide which is more of a threat to our local fisheries, lionfish or red snapper! :mad:

[captfrankie]

Unless I am reading the regs wrong the June 1 opening is just proposed. The state is going to follow the Fed. regs when they come out, I haven't found them yet.

I agree that public safety is going to be the question that will come up when they realized that the Red Snapper don't have anything else to eat.

[Candy]

It's so hard to keep up with the regs anymore. Seems they change faster than the ink dries on the paper they're printed on.