Updated February 2023

Topics

• Estimates of hooking mortality in the catch-and-release recreational fisheries
• Complete knowledge of the life history of exploited estuarine and marine fishes indigenous to coastal Georgia
• Improve fishery assessments, with increased/coordinated fishery-dependent and fishery-independent monitoring/surveys region-wide
• Characterization of discards associated with recreational fisheries, specifically Red Drum and Black Sea Bass.