# 2025 Gulf Red Snapper Recreational For-Hire Fishing Season
> **Rule** · Temporary rule; closure. · Published 2025-05-12 · Effective 2025-09-16 · 90 FR 20127
## Document
- **Document number:** 2025-08228
- **Category:** catch-limit
- **Species:** red snapper
- **Federal Register citation:** 90 FR 20127
- **Publication date:** 2025-05-12
- **Effective date:** 2025-09-16
- **NOAA docket:** Docket No. 140818679-5356-02
## Abstract

NMFS announces the 2025 recreational fishing season for the Federal charter vessel/headboat (for-hire) component for red snapper in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of the Gulf through this temporary rule. The red snapper recreational for-hire component in the Gulf EEZ opens on June 1, 2025, and will close at 12:01 a.m., local time, on September 16, 2025. This closure is necessary to prevent the Federal for-hire component from exceeding its quota and to prevent overfishing of the Gulf red snapper resource.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/05/12/2025-08228/2025-gulf-red-snapper-recreational-for-hire-fishing-season)
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