The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council divides the red snapper catch into commercial, private angler and charter allocations. While this Alabama snapper season 2022 is projected to last around 40 days, the 2021 season was open for 124 days due to several factors including extended bad weather that kept most anglers off the water until late in the year. “If the fishing effort is ‘normal,’ and the weather is favorable, we’ll fish probably 30 to 40 days, depending on the effort.” “We anticipate our quota for this year will be similar to last year’s, which was 1.12 million pounds,” Bannon said. Scott Bannon, director of Alabama’s Marine Fisheries Division, says this season is shaping up to be similar to last year. The incorporation of multiple data streams into comparable time series of recreational catch is expected to improve stock assessments. NOAA Fisheries reports they are currently working to combine their Marine Recreational Information Program (MRIP) estimates with the new estimates from A&M to come to a figure that can be used to manage the fishery into the future, and that will ensure state data are used in a way that is compatible with historic estimates produced by NOAA Fisheries’ Marine Recreational Information Program. Under the federal system, Florida anglers get 44.8 percent of the quota, Alabama anglers about 26.3 percent, Mississippi 3.6 percent Louisiana 19.1 percent and Texas 6.2 percent. For example, when they set the 2017 recreational red snapper season, they estimated that 81% of the annual catch target would be caught during state seasons, leaving less than 600,000 pounds for the private recreational federal season. NOAA Fisheries had to account for this harvest when setting federal seasons.
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