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Commerce Department, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
2025 Gulf Red Snapper Recreational For-Hire Fishing Season
Published May 12, 2025. Takes effect September 16, 2025. printed at 90 FR 20127. amending 50 CFR 622.
This sets the 2025 red snapper season for charter boats in the Gulf.
What the Rule Says It Does
NMFS announces the 2025 recreational fishing season for the Federal charter vessel/headboat (for-hire) component for red snapper in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of the Gulf through this temporary rule. The red snapper recreational for-hire component in the Gulf EEZ opens on June 1, 2025, and will close at 12:01 a.m., local time, on September 16, 2025. This closure is necessary to prevent the Federal for-hire component from exceeding its quota and to prevent overfishing of the Gulf red snapper resource.
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- The rule itself
Commerce Department, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, “2025 Gulf Red Snapper Recreational For-Hire Fishing Season,” 90 FR 20127 (May 12, 2025). Effective September 16, 2025.
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/05/12/2025-08228/2025-gulf-red-snapper-recreational-for-hire-fishing-season - This page
“2025 Gulf Red Snapper Recreational For-Hire Fishing Season,” a final rule naming an order indexed here. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/rules/rule-2025-08228/ (retrieved August 26, 2026).
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