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NOAA Releases Final Rule on South Atlantic Red Snapper Uncategorized

NOAA Releases Final Rule on South Atlantic Red Snapper

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

Kevin HicksonJune 9, 2025

LETTER: Joint Request for State Management of Red Snapper and Other Reef Fishes in the South Atlantic Uncategorized

LETTER: Joint Request for State Management of Red Snapper and Other Reef Fishes in the South Atlantic

Federal management is driven by flawed data and regulations that threaten the economies of our…

Kevin HicksonJune 4, 2025

LETTER: Regarding the Management of Snapper-Grouper Species in the South Atlantic Uncategorized

LETTER: Regarding the Management of Snapper-Grouper Species in the South Atlantic

Express our strong support for a new state-led framework to ensure more effective, science-based stewardship…

Kevin HicksonMay 28, 2025

State Fisheries Management Can Provide Better Outcomes Uncategorized

State Fisheries Management Can Provide Better Outcomes

Learn why Gulf red snapper anglers have it so much better, and what Atlantic states…

Kevin HicksonApril 30, 2025

LETTER: CSP Coalition Comments on A59 Uncategorized

LETTER: CSP Coalition Comments on A59

We share the frustrations expressed by the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council over the management…

Kevin HicksonMarch 18, 2025

NOAA Drops Solution in Search of a Problem with Secretarial Amendment Uncategorized

NOAA Drops Solution in Search of a Problem with Secretarial Amendment

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

Kevin HicksonJanuary 16, 2025

Withdrawal of Vessel Speed Reduction Rule Clears Way for Technology-Centered Solution for Marine Mammal Protection Uncategorized

Withdrawal of Vessel Speed Reduction Rule Clears Way for Technology-Centered Solution for Marine Mammal Protection

Following the formal withdrawal of the proposed expansion of the 2008 North Atlantic Right Whale…

Kevin HicksonJanuary 15, 2025

Feds Poised to Close Door on Bottom Angling in the South Atlantic Uncategorized

Feds Poised to Close Door on Bottom Angling in the South Atlantic

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

Kevin HicksonNovember 1, 2024

Group Addressing Menhaden Decline in the Upper Chesapeake Bay Uncategorized

Group Addressing Menhaden Decline in the Upper Chesapeake Bay

Forage fish, a critical food source for other species, are in decline up and down…

Kevin HicksonSeptember 25, 2024

South Atlantic Red Snapper Season Down to Single Day Uncategorized

South Atlantic Red Snapper Season Down to Single Day

NOAA acts unilaterally to limit season, indicates bottom closures to all fishing are likely.  …

Kevin HicksonJune 13, 2024

Angling Groups Object to NOAA Longline Plan Uncategorized

Angling Groups Object to NOAA Longline Plan

June 10, 2024 Randy Blankinship Highly Migratory Species Management Division Office of Sustainable Fisheries (F/SF1)…

Kevin HicksonJune 11, 2024

Sporting Groups Cheer Senate Introduction of MAPOceans Act ProtectingYourFreedomtoFishUncategorized

Sporting Groups Cheer Senate Introduction of MAPOceans Act

New legislation will increase accessibility of saltwater recreational fishing rules and marine waters navigation information

Kevin HicksonMay 7, 2024