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?

  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)?

No. Also applies to size limits such as possessing undersized fish.           

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?