FAQs

  2.    How are members of the Council chosen?

  3.    What are the considerations involved in a fishery management plan?

  4.    Who advises the Council on developing fishery management plans?

  5.    What does a Fishery Management Plan do?

  6.    Where may one review a proposed Fishery Management Plan for the Gulf of 

         Mexico?

  7.    May a fisherman on a vessel with a commercial Reef Fish permit retain

          the recreational bag limit of a reef fish species when the commercial

          season or quota is closed?

No, if commercial quantities of any Gulf reef fish are onboard.

Otherwise, yes, except during recreational closures. For example, when the recreational red snapper season is closed or during the recent February1 - March 1 recreational grouper closure.

  8.    May a recreational fisherman possess more than the daily bag limit if away

        from the dock for more than one day?

  9.    May a commercial fisherman retain a bag limit of reef fish as well as the

        allowed commercial quantity (applies when there is a commercial trip limit

        such as for red snapper or grouper)?

10.    May a recreational fisherman possess both a federal and state bag limit of

        reef fish?

11.    How does the Fishery Management Plan (FMP) process work?

12.    What is the intercouncil boundary between the South Atlantic and the Gulf

        of Mexico?