Shareholders' Alliance in the News

"...serial overharvesting happened as the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (Gulf Council) failed to develop and approve a viable solution in a timely manner and ignored the advice from NOAA Fisheries’ general counsel that a lack of ‘common currency’ was a violation of MSA,” - Eric Brazer, Deputy Director

December 6, 2022

The Gulf Coast Seafood Alliance (GCSA) supports the Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish Shareholders' Alliance, Southern Offshore Fishing Association, and A.P. Bell Fish Company, who filed the suit, in their continuing efforts to challenge an unfair and unlawful decision by NOAA.

October 26, 2022

"It’s clear that we need some creative thinking. The current tools in the management toolbox aren’t working." - Jane Black Lee

October 24, 2022

October 12, 2022

"The “problem” in the reef fish fishery isn’t the commercial IFQ programs. The problem is that the heavily-recreational-leaning Gulf Council and NOAA Fisheries are using outdated information to increase quotas when stocks are declining, then have to reduce quotas when the stock plummets even further. " - Buddy Guindon, Executive Director

September 12, 2022

Commercial fishermen who are challenging a major shift of Gulf of Mexico red grouper quotas to the recreational sector have drawn the surprising support of charter boat operators, who argue the revised quotas would hurt their businesses as well. 

September 8, 2022

"In recent history, commercial and charter fishermen are having a harder time catching fish that they normally catch." - Ashford Rosenberg, Policy Director

August 29, 2022

When the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (Gulf Council) met in Corpus Christi last week, commercial and charter fishermen from Texas to Florida packed the meeting room and were unified around a single message – we are seeing warning signs that red snapper have started to decline.

August 29, 2022

"If you had asked me five years ago if I was worried about red snapper populations in Texas, I would have said “no."

But I’m not that optimistic today" - Buddy Guindon, Executive Director

August 25, 2022

"We’re excited to see the Senate prioritize a path forward to support the next generation of commercial fishermen leaders.” - Eric Brazer, Deputy Director

August 2, 2022

Fishermen have more at stake than the cut in their grouper quota: NMFS and the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council are already forging ahead with serial reallocations of other fisheries. The lawsuit may be their best, if not only, chance to stop them.

June 14, 2022