Gulf of Mexico fishing

In a show of bipartisan concern for the health of the Gulf of Mexico, 20 members of the U.S. House of Representatives this week signed a letter from the Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus calling on the Department of Interior (DOI) to declare a moratorium on its “idle iron” policy, currently in the process of removing hundreds of coral-covered, decommissioned oil rigs from the Gulf. Read More

Anyone who follows this blog space at all must know that I am passionate about trying to save the Gulf of Mexico’s phenomenal, unique and magnificent vertical system of living coral reefs from destruction at the bidding of our federal Department of the Interior. Read More

If you fish the northern Gulf of Mexico, you’re no doubt familiar by now with the U.S. Department of the Interior’s misguided “Idle Iron” policy, the federal plan to destroy 650 decommissioned oil platforms in the region. Read More

Let states manage stocks of red snapper and other non-migratory fish off their shores.That’s the basic message in an op-ed piece by Dr. Bob Shipp, chairman of the Dept. of Marine Sciences at the University of South Alabama and a 16-year member of the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council. (Shipp is also a long-time Fish Facts expert for Sport Fishing magazine.) Read More