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  2. Northern red snapper - Wikipedia

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    Fishing for red snapper has been a major industry in the Gulf of Mexico, but permit restrictions and changes in the quota system for commercial snapper fishermen in the Gulf have made the fish less commercially available. [18] Researchers estimate the bycatch of young red snapper, especially by shrimp trawlers, is a significant concern.

  3. Etelis coruscans - Wikipedia

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    Etelis coruscans, commonly known as the longtail snapper or deep-water red snapper, is a species of snapper found in the Pacific and Indian oceans. [2] It is a valuable commercial species, and lives quite deep – from 210 to 300 m (690 to 980 ft). It is a long-lived species that grows and matures slowly. [3] In Hawai'i the fish is widely known ...

  4. Trolling (fishing) - Wikipedia

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    Trolling is a method of fishing where one or more fishing lines, baited with lures or bait fish, are drawn through the water at a consistent, low speed. This may be behind a moving boat, or by slowly winding the line in when fishing from a static position, or even sweeping the line from side-to-side, e.g. when fishing from a jetty .

  5. Yelloweye rockfish - Wikipedia

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    It is also locally known as "red snapper", [2] [3] not to be confused with the warm-water Atlantic species Lutjanus campechanus that formally carries the name red snapper. The yelloweye is one of the world's longest-lived fish species, and is cited to live to a maximum of 114 to 120 years of age.

  6. Lutjanus sebae - Wikipedia

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    Lutjanus sebae, also known as red emperor, emperor red snapper, emperor snapper, government bream, king snapper, queenfish or red kelp, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a snapper belonging to the family Lutjanidae. It is native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.

  7. Fishing industry in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Grouper: snowy, red, Warsaw, black, goliath, and Nassau grouper. Snapper: vermilion and red snapper. The red snapper fishery has been under stringent management measures since the late 1990s. Cooperative efforts among NMFS, the Councils, and the states, have led to the recovery of yellowtail snapper.

  8. Sebastes miniatus - Wikipedia

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    Sebastes miniatus, the vermilion rockfish, vermilion seaperch, red snapper, red rock cod, and rasher, [2] is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Sebastinae, the rockfishes, part of the family Scorpaenidae. It is native to the waters of the Pacific Ocean off western North America from Baja California to Alaska.

  9. Fishing vessel - Wikipedia

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    A fishing vessel is a boat or ship used to catch fish and other valuable nektonic aquatic animals (e.g. shrimps/prawns, krills, coleoids, etc.) in the sea, lake or river. Humans have used different kinds of surface vessels in commercial, artisanal and recreational fishing.