Florida has implemented a season closure on all “shallow water” grouper. These include gag, black grouper, red grouper, scamp, red hind, rock hind, coney, graysby, yellowfin grouper, yellowmouth grouper, and tiger grouper in Florida Atlantic waters (within 3 nautical miles of the shore) and all of Monroe County. The season will be closed starting January 19 and run through April 30 at this point. Options to leave the season closed longer are still being talked about.
This closure coincides with the federally mandated closure for the same species in South Atlantic Federal waters which run from North Carolina to the Florida Keys.
Charter and party boat captains stand to loose a lot of money with this closure, Groupers are a mainstay of party boats this time of year. The residual effect on tackle and bait shops will also be felt as people will simply stay home and […]
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