NOAA Fisheries Service published an emergency rule*in the Federal Register on August *12, 2011, effective*September 12, 2011. The emergency rule increases the*recreational red snapper quota by 345,000 pounds for the*2011 fishing year and *provides the agency with theauthority to re-open the recreational red snapper season later this year, if appropriate.If NOAA Fisheries Service determines that the*recreational sector did not harvest the full amount of its*2011 *red snapper quota by *the *initial July 19, 2011,*closure date, *then *the *agency would provide for a*supplemental recreational red snapper season.
But a few days later
Despite the shortest red snapper season ever, federal scientists believe that recreational anglers may have exceeded their annual quota by nearly 1 million pounds
http://blog.al.com/live/2011/08/next...er_season.html
Also
The overage may mean that next year’s snapper season will be even shorter than this year’s 48-day season.