The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council will meet January 30 – February 2, 2017 at the Astor Crowne Plaza hotel, located at 739 Canal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana.
The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council will meet January 30 – February 2, 2017 at the Astor Crowne Plaza hotel, located at 739 Canal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana.
The commercial fishing season for Non-Sandbar Large Coastal Sharks will open in Louisiana waters at 12:01 a.m. on February 1, 2017; federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico will also open at this time.
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) announced that effective March 15 at 11:30 p.m., commercial fishing for large coastal sharks will be closed in Louisiana waters. The National Marine Fisheries Service closed commercial fishing for large coastal sharks in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico on March…
On December 3, 2015, the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission took action on a Declaration of Emergency to modify the commercial harvest possession limits for non-sandbar, large coastal sharks.