Looser rules aren't likely in next few years
By SHANNON TOMPKINS
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle
Roy Crabtree pretty much cut to the heart of the situation facing red snapper, anglers who target that highly popular offshore fish, the businesses that depend on the snapper fishery, and the people charged with managing the marine resource.
"Nobody in the Gulf of Mexico is happy. I'm not happy. You're not happy," Crabtree, regional administrator for the National Marine Fisheries Service's southeast region, said to a crowd of about 100 aggravated anglers during a meeting Friday evening at the University of Houston-Clear Lake.
"I can understand your frustrations," he said to the group who had come, mostly, to voice their exasperation with increasingly tighter federal regulations on recreational red snapper harvest. "But I need real solutions that are consistent with the science and that will stand up in court."
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Watch for The Orange Beach Community Website's article on this topic coming out this week.
