Amberjack season closed until 2018

Posted on May 3, 2017

At its April meeting in Tallahassee, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) approved closing Gulf state waters to the recreational harvest of greater amberjack for the remainder of 2017.

This is consistent with the amberjack closure in Gulf federal waters that went into effect March 24. Both state and federal waters will reopen Jan. 1, 2018.

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