Two words, “red” and “snapper,” are fighting words for Louisiana’s offshore recreational fishermen. Those words go hand-in-hand with all-too-valid claims of federal fisheries mismanagement at a time ...

In the Gulf of Mexico, there are a variety of shallow-water snapper species frequently caught by anglers. Mangrove, lane, red, vermillion and yellowtail are the most common along Florida’s west coast.

Back in the not-so-long-ago days when the recreational red snapper season was dwindling to a very few days, the two-per-angler daily limit was more prized than it is today. This year’s two-snapper per ...