State marine fisheries departments from the five Gulf states endorsed a months-in-the-planning outline Friday that would place the management of red snapper throughout the Gulf of Mexico in the hands ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission met last week in St. Petersburg to discuss proposals and management plans. It approved a management plan for gopher tortoises (reclassified from ...

Federal officials have formally proposed a 54-day snapper season for 2010 that would begin June 1 and end July 24, with a two-fish-per-day limit. That would be the shortest snapper season ever. By ...