date:Mar 31, 2014
ng noted that recreational fishing landings of red snapper continued to grow over the past 10 years, with NMFS, through a local fisheries management council, continuing to raise quotas to match pace with the landings and not taking action to limit catches. The ruling also showed the council and NMFS, without reports of a current year's landings, set catch limits and season lengths for subsequent years. The court documents mentioned most recently the 2013 season, when NMFS reopened the season in