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NOAA Fisheries Southeast recently announced the introduction of a new Text Message Alert Program. The program allows stakeholders to sign up to receive important fishery related alerts via text message. Text alerts are expected to include immediate fishery openings and … Continued
Effective August 22, 2016, a new rule will extend the existing Gulf of Mexico commercial shrimp permit moratorium. Amendment 17A extends the moratorium on Gulf of Mexico commercial shrimp permits for 10 years to October 26, 2026. NOAA Fisheries, with … Continued
NOAA Fisheries has announced that federal waters from 9 to 200 nautical miles off Texas will open to shrimp trawling at 30 minutes after official sunset, local time, on July 15, 2016, corresponding to the time Texas opens its waters … Continued
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) has announced that the state’s 2016 spring inshore shrimp season will close at 6 p.m. on Sunday, July 3rd from the Mississippi/Louisiana state line westward to the western shore of the Freshwater … Continued
Shrimpers reported good catches on June 6th, the opening day of the 2016 Mississippi shrimp season, according to Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (MDMR). “The fishermen that braved the weather reported decent catches of 50-60/60-70 brown shrimp with a good … Continued
Scientists forecast that this year’s Gulf of Mexico dead zone will be approximately 5,898 square miles, the same range as it has averaged over the last several years. Hypoxic zones are areas in the ocean of such low oxygen concentration … Continued