LegaSea Update 33. Differing perspectives on allowances. November 2014

One of the major talking points during the snapper campaign in 2013 was the assertion that recreational catch had increased exponentially and that effort needed to be reined in through bag limit reductions. Fact is, management of Snapper 1 had not been reviewed for 16 years an the recreational allowance made in 1997 did not reflect any sliver of reality, either then or now.