Publication Name

DaytonBeach News-Journal

Author(s)

Dinah Voyles Pulver

One little phrase tucked into a straightforward agenda for a federal agency's June meeting in Orlando gives Florida's offshore fishermen a glimmer of hope that a two-year ban on catching red snapper could soon be lifted.

"It's exciting," said David Nelson, a lifelong Port Orange fisherman who has been active in the debate over the controversial closing of the red snapper fishery off the Atlantic coast of Florida and Georgia.

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Some researchers have heard the preliminary numbers are going to be below what was projected, said Holly Binns, a project director with the Pew Environment Group, a nonprofit organization that has campaigned to end over-fishing.

"If the numbers pan out and the new data indicate that some limited fishing for red snapper could resume this year, that's great," Binns said. "It could be the start of a whole new chapter in red snapper management.”

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Read the full article, Offshore Fishermen Find Hope in Snapper Ban Debate, on the Dayton Beach News-Journal website.