News brief
South Carolina asked for state management of red snapper.
That鈥檚 a popular sport and eating fish whose stocks have rebounded in recent years. 鈥淪outh Carolina knows its waters, its fishermen, and its economy better than any federal agency ever will,鈥� the state鈥檚 attorney general wrote in a letter to the U.S. Commerce Department. The state joins Florida and Georgia in a growing effort to localize regulation. Leaders blame bureaucratic inaction and flawed data for limiting access to the species.
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