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Recreational and commercial fishermen take note that the state’s Zone II spring inshore shrimp season opens at noon Monday.
Zone II runs from the Mississippi River’s South Pass west to the western shoreline of Vermilion Bay.
State marine biologist Marty Bourgeois said through April 29 that Terrebonne Bay was holding more and larger brown shrimp than the usually more productive Barataria Bay estuary.
Data showed these two systems held the best chances for the state’s 14,000 shrimp-license-holders to take brown shrimp measuring 100 or fewer to the pound.
The eastern areas of Zone II around the mouth of the Mississippi River are unproductive because of the high discharge of the river during the last three months. Zone II’s western area, Vermilion Bay, is holding freshwater from the high Atchafalaya River discharge.
Brown shrimp are the primarily spring season species targeted by trawlers. In 2007, slightly more than 30 million pounds of brown shrimp were taken from state waters. The state’s 2007 total shrimp catch was slightly more than 70 million pounds.
Sunday TV
For the first time, the Toyota Texas Bass Classic will be televised. The prestigious celebrity-amateur tournament will be aired on the CBS Sports Spectacular at 4 p.m. Sunday.
Closed Saturday
Commercial fishing for deepwater grouper species and all tilefishes closes in federal and state waters at 12:01 a.m. May 10, that’s Saturday. Off limits for commercial fishermen are Warsaw, yellowedge, misty and snowy groupers; speckled hinds, which some fishermen call “strawberry” grouper; and goldface, blackline, anchor and blueline tilefish.
The season will remain closed until 12:01 a.m. Jan. 1, 2009.
Zone II runs from the Mississippi River’s South Pass west to the western shoreline of Vermilion Bay.
State marine biologist Marty Bourgeois said through April 29 that Terrebonne Bay was holding more and larger brown shrimp than the usually more productive Barataria Bay estuary.
Data showed these two systems held the best chances for the state’s 14,000 shrimp-license-holders to take brown shrimp measuring 100 or fewer to the pound.
The eastern areas of Zone II around the mouth of the Mississippi River are unproductive because of the high discharge of the river during the last three months. Zone II’s western area, Vermilion Bay, is holding freshwater from the high Atchafalaya River discharge.
Brown shrimp are the primarily spring season species targeted by trawlers. In 2007, slightly more than 30 million pounds of brown shrimp were taken from state waters. The state’s 2007 total shrimp catch was slightly more than 70 million pounds.
Sunday TV
For the first time, the Toyota Texas Bass Classic will be televised. The prestigious celebrity-amateur tournament will be aired on the CBS Sports Spectacular at 4 p.m. Sunday.
Closed Saturday
Commercial fishing for deepwater grouper species and all tilefishes closes in federal and state waters at 12:01 a.m. May 10, that’s Saturday. Off limits for commercial fishermen are Warsaw, yellowedge, misty and snowy groupers; speckled hinds, which some fishermen call “strawberry” grouper; and goldface, blackline, anchor and blueline tilefish.
The season will remain closed until 12:01 a.m. Jan. 1, 2009.
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