Can someone please explain to me how ARS is endangered. I went out yesterday targeting Grouper and caught endangered ARS 2 to 1 over Grouper. Makes no sense to me. Feel free to educate me.
Go to Envionmentaldefensefund.com and they will tell you that 90% of the large fish in the ocean have been caught and that ARS are near extinction
Maybe they are just shy around the people doing the counting.
17’ Mako
283 Grady White Release
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They say that red snapper live to be forty to fifty years old and when they have the mini seasons that a very small % of fish brought in are over 2 or 3 years old and it’s not a healthy population until a majority of fish are in the middle of their life expectancy no matter how many red snapper there are out in the ocean… Plus they use sites like this to determine how many fish are caught and released and a certain %of those are considered dead discards. It might be years before they have a legit season on them again if that’s the logic they use
Speaking of…are we not going to get a 2 week season this year?
Tuff e Nuff
24 Albemarle Express
No season this year
Mayhem
Pioneer 197
Quit posting your snapper reports. Problem solved
I dont think stopping fish reports will change the ARS closure.