NMFS Issues Final Rule for Red Snapper Management Measures in the Gulf of Mexico

Summary

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has issued a final rule to implement a regulatory amendment to the Fishery Management Plan for the Reef Fish Resources of the Gulf of Mexico, increasing commercial and recreational quotas for red snapper and closing the recreational fishery at midnight on July 19, 2011, to help achieve optimum yield and enforce the Gulf individual fishing quota programs.