Rules of the rod: Red snapper fishing on the NC coast this weekend

Love catching RED SNAPPER? ❤️ Who doesn't! But to have a good red snapper season, we have to have fish. And anglers can help influence that. It’s not just about how many red snapper we keep; it’s also about discard mortality ➡️ how many die because we caught them. If we decrease our discard mortality, we can have a longer season! But how do we do that? 🤔 ☠️ Discard mortality is largely due to barotrauma, which essentially means that the fish came up to the surface too quickly. ✅ To combat that,