Oppose Snapper-Grouper Fishery of the South Atlantic

What the proposal said, and what the decision did

No figure from the proposal has been checked against the decision on this fight yet. What the record does hold is the issues ledger below.

NMFS has received applications from four state agencies (Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina) for exempted fishing permits that would let them and participating fishermen bypass certain federal rules on recreational red snapper harvest in the South Atlantic. The permits, if issued, would run pilot programs in 2026 to test state-level data collection and management strategies, with results shaping potential follow-on permits in 2027 and 2028. This affects recreational red snapper fishermen and federal fisheries managers across the South Atlantic region.

In the agency’s own words

NMFS announces the receipt of four applications for exempted fishing permits (EFP) from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), Georgia Department of Natural Resources (GADNR), South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR), and North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries (NCDMF). If issued by NMFS, each EFP would exempt the applicable state agency and participating fishermen from specific Federal regulations applicable to the recreational harvest of red snapper in the South Atlantic. The applicants each propose to pilot test state data collection and management strategies for the rec…

Federal Register 2026-02927 ↗

The groups on this fight

4 groups predicted likely to care in Florida and Georgia

Predicted likely to care is a guess from the group's sourced work in Florida and Georgia, with no link to this decision. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.

• Everglades Foundation

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Everglades National Park, Florida: The science and restoration muscle behind Everglades protection.

• Friends of the Everglades

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Everglades National Park, Florida: Founded by Marjory Stoneman Douglas to defend the River of Grass.

• Southern Environmental Law Center

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia: Filed the 2022 lawsuit against the Army Corps over wetlands decisions enabling the Twin Pines mine on behalf of four national groups, and its senior attorney chaired the Okefenokee Protection Alliance executive committee.

• Wild Cumberland

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Cumberland Island National Seashore, Georgia: Opposes all four proposed land exchanges, saying maps, acreage and valuations have never been disclosed and the homesites sit next to Wilderness and Potential Wilderness; held a September 30, 2026 virtual town hall ahead of the October 16 comment deadline.

Every group above is on STAND for Public Lands, with its court record, its filings and who backs it.

Who signs it

The notice names no signer PLAN could read. PLAN names a decision-maker only when the document names one.

The ground

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In court on this ground

This fight isn’t bound to a land unit in PLAN’s record yet, so there are no court cases to show for its ground.

Who holds the vote

PLAN’s record doesn’t tie a member of Congress to this fight yet. The scorecard grades the votes and bills that decide public lands; nothing joins a vote or a bill to this decision, so there’s no member to name here without guessing.