The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission on Thursday approved new snook rules which will take effect when snook season reopens in September. The new rules are:
. Reduce the daily recreational bag limit from two fish to one on the Atlantic coast
. the slot in the Atlantic to 28-32 inches.
. Tighten the Gulf slot -- including the Keys and Everglades National Park -to 28-33 inches.
. Add the first half of December and the month of February to the closed season in the Gulf
. Allow anglers to carry more than one cast net aboard a boat while fishing for snook.
The working group and the FWC believe that, if enforced, the new rules could bring snook up to 40 percent SPR in 10 years.
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