In the Gulf of Mexico, there are a variety of shallow-water snapper species frequently caught by anglers. Mangrove, lane, red, vermillion and yellowtail are the most common along Florida’s west coast.

A fisherman holding a red snapper, a commercially-fished species of snapper. One of the two species of snappers (Lutjanus bohar) new research found to be over 60 years old - older than any ...

Fisheries scientist and artist Elle Wibisono recently published a children’s book, “A Snapper Tale,” that features red-colored snappers native to Indonesia’s waters. Equipped with her extensive ...

Georgia fishery officials have withdrawn a plan to expand the recreational fishing season for red snapper from just a few ...

Berhampur: Researchers at Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) and Fakir Mohan University, Balasore, have recorded a new snapper species ‘Lutjanus arakan’ in Indian waters for the first time at Gopalpur ...

Back in the not-so-long-ago days when the recreational red snapper season was dwindling to a very few days, the two-per-angler daily limit was more prized than it is today. This year’s two-snapper per ...

Arlington, Virginia (March 13, 2007) – A popular game fish mistaken by scientists for a dog snapper is actually a new species discovered among the reefs of the Abrolhos region of the South Atlantic ...

Three-quarters of fish marketed in theUnited States as red snapper are mislabelled and belong to other species,researchers have discovered. Although there are various anecdotal reports of the fish ...