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MDMR requests anglers’ input for upcoming fishing effort survey

24-1-CWS | January 10, 2024 BILOXI, Miss. – MDMR is currently undertaking a pilot study (MS Creel) to gain more detailed and accurate information on Mississippi recreational anglers’ fishing effort. Anglers are encouraged to participate, regardless of fishing activity, and can expect phone calls as early as this week.   Calls will come from a

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LEGAL NOTICE – Order Closing Recreational Gray Triggerfish Season

Under the authority of Mississippi Code Ann. § 49-15-15, the Executive Director of the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources does hereby order that: The recreational harvest for Gray Triggerfish (Balistes capriscus) shall close in Mississippi territorial waters at 12:01 a.m., local time, on January 1, 2024. DOWNLOAD PDF

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LEGAL NOTICE – Order Opening Recreational Red Grouper Season

Under the authority of Mississippi Code Ann. § 49-15-15, the Executive Director of the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources does hereby order that: The recreational fishing season for Red Grouper (Epinephelus morio) shall open in Mississippi territorial waters at 12:01 a.m., local time, on January 1, 2024. DOWNLOAD PDF

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MDMR Hatchery Bureau releases 2,000 Spotted Seatrout Thursday with a final total of over 190,000 released in Mississippi waters in 2023

23-43-CWS | December 15, 2023 BILOXI, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources Hatchery Bureau made the final 2023 release of juvenile Spotted Seatrout into Mississippi Gulf Coast estuaries on Thursday, Dec. 14. A total of 4,000 6-inch Spotted Seatrout, raised in collaboration with the University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast Research Laboratory for

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