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January marked the second anniversary of the Gulf’s red snapper IFQ program.\u00a0 Fortunately, fishermen, regulators and environmentalists continue to report good news compared to the decade the fishery suffered under destructive derby management (also known as a \u201crace\u201d for the limited number of snapper that fishermen were allowed to catch each year).<\/p>\n
Year-round fish supplies and excellent quality mean that dockside prices climbed and have remained steady at least 25% higher than under the derby.\u00a0 Fishermen are allowed to keep most of the fish they catch, so the number of dead discarded fish (also known as bycatch) has been significantly cut.\u00a0 And, like the previous year, the annual catch was about three percent under its limit.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
January marked the second anniversary of the Gulf’s red snapper IFQ program.\u00a0 Fortunately, fishermen, regulators and environmentalists continue to report good news compared to the decade the fishery suffered under destructive derby management (also known as a \u201crace\u201d for the limited number of snapper that fishermen were allowed to catch each year). Year-round fish supplies …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1882,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[498,502,72531,500,490],"coauthors":[5184],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gulf-of-mexico","tag-catch-share","tag-derby","tag-gulf-of-mexico","tag-ifq","tag-red-snapper"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n