Commercial fishermen will go nearly a year without a red drum season following an unusually large harvest in the fall that has prompted a closure.
“Every red drum we catch between now and Sept. 1 we have to throw back,” said David Jarvis, a commercial fisherman from the Swansboro area.
Jarvis acknowledges that there is a quota in place and that fisheries officials had to close the season under current regulations. However, he denies claims that commercial fishermen illegally targeted the fish.
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