{"id":270477,"date":"2026-05-14T05:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T05:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/270477\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T05:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T05:10:16","slug":"desantis-announces-floridas-longest-ever-gulf-red-snapper-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/270477\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis announces Florida\u2019s longest-ever Gulf red snapper season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV\/Florida Capital Bureau) &#8211; Florida\u2019s waters will soon open for yearly fishers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">On Monday, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Florida\u2019s private recreational red snapper season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">The state\u2019s new <a href=\"https:\/\/myfwc.com\/fishing\/saltwater\/recreational\/atlantic-red-snapper-efp\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/myfwc.com\/fishing\/saltwater\/recreational\/atlantic-red-snapper-efp\/\">Exempted Fishing Permit<\/a> will allow Floridians to fish commercially in state and federal waters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-center\">Florida politics:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">This gulf season will last 140 days, making it the longest one ever. The governor says this marks the beginning of more growth in the fishing industry. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">\u201cIn terms of this dramatically expanded season, this is just the beginning. We\u2019re going to expand from there very rapidly, and you\u2019re going to see the Atlantic snapper season mirroring the massive red snapper season we\u2019ve been able to bring to Florida\u2019s Gulf Coast communities,\u201d DeSantis said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Under this plan, Florida will lead a 39-day Atlantic red snapper season this year. The season will start on May 22. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV\/Florida Capital Bureau) &#8211; Florida\u2019s waters will soon open for yearly fishers. On Monday, Gov. Ron&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[27276,88972,8853,6872,514,11763,600,27278,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-270477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-exempted-fishing-permit","tag-fishers","tag-floridians","tag-governor-ron-desantis","tag-gulf","tag-industry","tag-recreation","tag-red-snapper","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}