The Great Red Snapper Count

The Great Red Snapper Count, a two-year research project by the state of Mississippi’s Coastal Research and Extension Center in Biloxi, Miss., will undertake the chore of estimating the abundance of Red Snapper in the Gulf of Mexico. The study will include recreational and commercial fishers as a critical component while researchers use a dart tag on Red Snapper. About 4,000 legal-sized Red Snapper will be tagged. Tagging will begin in the spring of this year, prior to the federal GoM Red Snapper recreational fishing season. Red snapper will be tagged and released across the Gulf of Mexico. (Source: Coastal Research & Extension Center 04/2019)