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Louisiana Flounder Fishing Closed 10/15 to 11/30 Officially Official
Posted on 7/20/22 at 3:54 pm
Posted on 7/20/22 at 3:54 pm
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Glad to see they're atleast going after the commercial sector keeping them as bycatch, I've read that was a much bigger issue than recreational.
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An annual closed season for the recreational and commercial harvest of Southern Flounder from October 15 through November 30 of each year has been finalized. This statewide closure for Southern Flounder is for all sectors and all gear types, including any flounder caught as bycatch in any other fishery. Exemptions that previously existed for southern flounder caught as bycatch on a shrimping trip are no longer applicable. The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission (LWFC) was granted the authority by the Legislature to modify the shrimping bycatch exemption if the flounder stock is overfished and/or undergoing overfishing.
Glad to see they're atleast going after the commercial sector keeping them as bycatch, I've read that was a much bigger issue than recreational.
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Posted on 7/20/22 at 4:01 pm to YOURADHERE
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Glad to see they're atleast going after the commercial sector keeping them as bycatch, I've read that was a much bigger issue than recreational.
Yep. The shrimpers would “accidentally” catch them when they were “shrimping”. Come back to the dock with 10 lbs of shrimp and a thousand flounder.
This post was edited on 7/20/22 at 4:02 pm
Posted on 7/20/22 at 4:04 pm to YOURADHERE
That's going to piss off the Big Lake guides and the Texas baws that come over to catch easy limits.
Also glad they addressed the commercial sector.
Also glad they addressed the commercial sector.
Posted on 7/20/22 at 4:05 pm to YOURADHERE
quote:So does that mean just for during the 1.5 month closed season? Or does this mean shrimpers can't keep flounder bycatch at all anymore? Hopefully the latter
Exemptions that previously existed for southern flounder caught as bycatch on a shrimping trip are no longer applicable.
Posted on 7/20/22 at 4:09 pm to Tiger Prawn
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So does that mean just for during the 1.5 month closed season?
probably...but this is when they would hypothetically be catching the most given its when the flounder make their migration.
ETA: This is the time when almost everybody in LA catches all of their flounder for the year
This post was edited on 7/20/22 at 4:11 pm
Posted on 7/20/22 at 4:09 pm to Tiger Prawn
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So does that mean just for during the 1.5 month closed season? Or does this mean shrimpers can't keep flounder bycatch at all anymore? Hopefully the latter
Sounds like it's just for the closed season unfortunately
Posted on 7/20/22 at 5:06 pm to YOURADHERE
The recreational market has negligible impact on any salt water fish populations besides bow fishing reds.
Commercial, guides and habitat loss are why our coastal fisheries are going to shite.
My brother caught a fricking gaftop in the spillway a few weeks ago. It's like I'm taking crazy pills.
Commercial, guides and habitat loss are why our coastal fisheries are going to shite.
My brother caught a fricking gaftop in the spillway a few weeks ago. It's like I'm taking crazy pills.
Posted on 7/20/22 at 5:33 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
It's a start. Figured we would see them just crack down on recreational. They should not even do this and not let commercial fisherman keep any year round.
Posted on 7/20/22 at 5:35 pm to Ron Cheramie
quote:so throwing brine dead flounder over the side will help?
Yep. The shrimpers would “accidentally” catch them when they were “shrimping”. Come back to the dock with 10 lbs of shrimp and a thousand flounder.
Posted on 7/20/22 at 5:38 pm to LEASTBAY
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It's a start. Figured we would see them just crack down on recreational. They should not even do this and not let commercial fisherman keep any year round.
This is how most states operate (punish rec fishermen but not the commercials) not just LA. At least this one takes a stab at the trawlers that do 99.9% of the harvest. I wish Georgia and South Carolina would do this too. If the random dude in a jonboat can't keep a flounder, then the multi-million dollar seafood trawler can't keep them either. That's what's fair.
Posted on 7/20/22 at 7:22 pm to YOURADHERE
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Louisiana Flounder Fishing Closed 10/15 to 11/30 Officially Official
i guess this is during the spawn migration when its too easy to find large groups gathered in concentrated areas.
commercial net fishermen should never be allowed to keep any fish they catch for any reason year-round.
at least they are using equal restrictions for commercial and recreational fishermen so maybe this is truly about conservation.
but its hard to trust them when they lie so much about the real reasons and the data used for most of the restrictions they put in place
Posted on 7/20/22 at 7:32 pm to choupiquesushi
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so throwing brine dead flounder over the side will help?
Yeah this was my thought. I imagine a 6” flounder is probably not doing so hot by the time it makes it to the deck of a shrimp boat.
Posted on 7/20/22 at 8:02 pm to bigbuckdj
Throw em overboard. At least it will prevent the phenomenon pointed out earlier, coming in with a dozen shrimp and 1000 flounder.
Posted on 7/20/22 at 9:03 pm to bigbuckdj
I think y'all don't seem to be understand commercial fisherman are targeting flounder deliberately under the cover of trawling for shrimp.
Posted on 7/20/22 at 9:10 pm to dandyjohn
Here in SELA is really won't matter to rec fishermen. We rarely catch them anymore. Hard to keep what you never catch. Agreed it is the skimmers wiping in them out.
Posted on 7/20/22 at 9:23 pm to iron banks
there's a couple different factors working against flounder at the moment. it's a GOM/South Atlantic issue.
environmentally, the sex of a flounder is determined at a very specific age which is based on prevailing temperature at the critical time period.
temperatures have been warmer in those critical times/areas and this has caused a severe shift in the sex ratio towards more males.
ETA: reducing any mortality at this point is justified, just mentioning that fishing mortality isnt the sole (pun) issue here
environmentally, the sex of a flounder is determined at a very specific age which is based on prevailing temperature at the critical time period.
temperatures have been warmer in those critical times/areas and this has caused a severe shift in the sex ratio towards more males.
ETA: reducing any mortality at this point is justified, just mentioning that fishing mortality isnt the sole (pun) issue here
This post was edited on 7/20/22 at 9:27 pm
Posted on 7/20/22 at 10:11 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
That’s good to know, I didn’t think they were targeting them. I thought it was just an absurd amount of bycatch. Hopefully this helps. I love flounder.
Posted on 7/20/22 at 10:13 pm to iron banks
Been catching alot more this year in the Biloxi Marsh. Almost every trip. Not sure the reasons. Maybe salinity.
Posted on 7/20/22 at 10:46 pm to choupiquesushi
quote:quote:so throwing brine dead flounder over the side will help?
Yep. The shrimpers would “accidentally” catch them when they were “shrimping”. Come back to the dock with 10 lbs of shrimp and a thousand flounder.
Posted on 7/21/22 at 7:29 am to choupiquesushi
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so throwing brine dead flounder over the side will help?
The shrimpers on calcasieu lake were targeting flounder intentionally. They are allowed to sell flounder bycatch from shrimping but the way the rules were before nothing stoped then from trawling the ship channel during their fall migration under the disguise of shrimping
This rule should keep the shrimpers from targeting these areas during the flounder migration which is the only reason they were trawling there to begin with.
I don’t think any other gamefish are allowed to be kept while trawling or purse seining?
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