Outdoors

35.6% of Louisiana’s 2023 annual private recreational allocation have been harvested during the 2023 red snapper season. Recently, the daily creel increased to 4 fish per person with the same 16-inch total length minimum size limit until recreational landings approach or reach Louisiana’s allocation.

LDWF is providing a special permit to transport and stock approximately 10,000 red drum fingerlings in the Calcasieu Lake estuary as part of a pilot project to investigate the biological and ecological efficacy of stocking with hatchery-raised fish.

Terrebonne Basin listed in list of closures that begin in February 2024.