Red Snapper Reallocation Reform Bill Reintroduced to Congress
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Press-Register] by Jeff Dute - February 25, 2015
The Red Snapper Regulatory Reform Act is back on the table in the U.S. Congress.
Its sponsor, U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne (AL-01) and long-time observers of management of the popular reef fish in the Gulf of Mexico say its passage is necessary to open the fishery to alternatives to the current restrictive quota system as created under the Magnuson-Stevens Act.
This act is the umbrella under which all fisheries within federal water are managed. The act’s authorization expired in 2013 and congress took up its reauthorization last year...
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