Transcript: Red Snapper Season

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September 26, 1998
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BROOKE GLADSTONE, HOST: Irrespective of Hurricane Georges, time is running out for red snapper fishing in the Gulf of Mexico. Federal officials are closing the fishery at the end of the month. It's the second year recreational red snapper fishing has been halted. Gulf Coast anglers question the science that says the species is overfished. NPR's Debbie Elliot reports. CAPTAIN DAVID WHEAT (PH), FISHING BOAT OPERATOR: If they ask me, before you go, and let's go fishing. DEBBIE ELLIOT, NPR REPORTER: Captain David Wheat of Orange Beach, Alabama takes tourists fishing in the Gulf of Mexico on his charter boat, Riptide. Most of his clients want to bring back red ...

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