Two words, “red” and “snapper,” are fighting words for Louisiana’s offshore recreational fishermen. Those words go hand-in-hand with all-too-valid claims of federal fisheries mismanagement at a time ...

Back in the not-so-long-ago days when the recreational red snapper season was dwindling to a very few days, the two-per-angler daily limit was more prized than it is today. This year’s two-snapper per ...

Fisheries scientist and artist Elle Wibisono recently published a children’s book, “A Snapper Tale,” that features red-colored snappers native to Indonesia’s waters. Equipped with her extensive ...

Just one day before the opening of one of Florida’s most anticipated sportfishing seasons, anglers around the state targeting red snapper learned they’d be better off staying at the dock. For more ...

A fisherman holding a red snapper, a commercially-fished species of snapper. One of the two species of snappers (Lutjanus bohar) new research found to be over 60 years old - older than any ...

Happy Easter, and hope you feel the peace this spring brings you and yours. This spring celebration ushers us into the fishing season, if it hasn’t begun in earnest already, with reports of first-rate ...

Florida anglers can fish for red snapper 126 days on the west coast but only two days on the east coast.

HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — Recreational anglers in South Carolina can now fish for all 55 species in the red snapper-grouper complex, year-round, within 3 miles of state waters. Gov. Henry McMaster ...

Over 20 boats ventured offshore during last weekend’s Suncoast Snapper Slapper tournament out of Marina Jacks in Sarasota. And with it, a beautiful few days of weather, allowing some to head deep in ...