Florida's Governor is again lamenting the federal government, this time for not allowing anglers ample time to harvest red snapper from the Atlantic Ocean, and he proposes the state handle management like it is in the Gulf of Mexico.
Last year Florida had the "largest Gulf Red Snapper season since the state undertook management," Ron DeSantis said Tuesday in Tampa.
He estimated that season was "80 some days" long compared to just "two days" in the Atlantic for recreational fishers. (Florida's season, in fact, was 87 days in 2023.)
"And it's because they have bad data," DeSantis said, previewing an announcement about Florida's 2024 season later Tuesday in Destin.
"So I knew this because I would talk to the fishermen and they said there's a lot of fish in the sea. We see them, the feds say they're not here," DeSantis said. "They're here, we see them, they're everywhere. And so I told my guys, I was like, we cannot be doing this nonsense."
"So I was like, figure out what actually is there and I want to open this up because there are a lot of red snapper available."
DeSantis would "love to take over the management of the Atlantic Red Snapper and not have the federal government do this paltry two day like they've done."
"I mean, that's just not acceptable. So, stay tuned on that. We're going to work really, really hard," he promised.
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