The following is provided to our readers as a courtesy: Recreational harvest of gag in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico (Gulf) will close at 12:01 a.m., local time, on October 19, 2023. Gag recreational harvest will be closed until the 2024 fishing season opens.     Why The Gag Closure Is Happening: Interim measures to reduce overfishing of gag stated that the recreational season would begin on September 1, 2023, and end on November 10, 2023, unless NOAA Fisheries projects that the gag recreational annual catch limit would be met before that date.

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