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  Red snapper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Red snapper (Lutjanus campechanus) is a reef fish found off the Atlantic coast of The Americas and in the Gulf of Mexico.
Red snappers have short, sharp, needle-like teeth, however they lack the prominent upper canine teeth found on the mutton, dog, and mangrove snappers.
Red Snapper are a prized food fish and are caught commercially, as well as recreationally.
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 Red Snapper
Snapper season is mostly in the Spring, but if the set quota is not met by then, the season will open the first 10 days of September, and October, possibly even November, until the quota is met.
Red snapper (Lutjanus campechanus), found off the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts, is one of the best known and desired deep-sea delicacies.The species is found from North Carolina to Florida's "snapper banks," off the coasts of Texas and Louisiana and down to the Campeche Bank off Mexico.
Snappers are caught in waters 60 to 200 feet deep using large electrical and manually powered reels with multiple-hook rigs.
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 Red Snapper, Snapper
Dubbed the “red” snapper due to its reddish-pink skin and red eyes, this saltwater fish is the best known and most popular among the approximately 250 existing species of snapper.
Considered one of the finest white fish, red snapper has a firm flesh that is often described as having a nutty flavor and a refreshing, clean scent.
Although other members of the snapper family, such as the mutton, vermilion, mangrove, yellowtail, and Caribbean red snapper are comparable in taste and texture, the red snapper is considered to be the most flavorful of its species.
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 Fish of the Gulf of Mexico brought to you by RodnReel.com
Red snapper are most common in the northern Gulf of Mexico, followed by the western Gulf and least common in southern Florida.
Red snappers are considered reef fish, so it would be logical to assume that they eat smaller creatures from the reefs.
Many of the red snapper caught, especially from deeper waters, have their stomachs protruding from their mouths, forced there by the expansion of gases in the air bladder as the fish are brought to the surface.
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 Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department: Red Snapper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
This snapper is found in the western Atlantic Ocean, from Massachusetts to Brazil, although it is uncommon north of the Carolinas.
The northern red snapper reaches an average length of 24 inches (60cm), with a maximum length of 39 inches (100cm) and may weigh up to 20 pounds.
Northern red snapper eggs are pelagic, spherical and transparent, measuring 0.8mm in diameter.
www.flmnh.ufl.edu /fish/Gallery/Descript/RedSnapper/Redsnapper.html   (1160 words)

  
 Red Snapper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Red Snapper are a British instrumental band founded in London in 1993 by Ali Friend (bass), Richard Thair (drums), and David Ayers (guitar).
Stylistically, Red Snapper's music contains elements of jazz, funk, jungle, trip-hop, hip-hop and breakbeat, as well as references to early psychedelic and progressive rock.
The latter was replaced by Karim Kendra by their third album, Our Aim is to Satisfy Red Snapper (2000).
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 USATODAY.com - Study finds red snapper has cousins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Research at the University of North Carolina shows more than three-quarters of "red snapper" samples from eight states turned out to be different species — vermillion snapper or lane snapper — in violation of federal law.
Red snapper is increasingly rare and it usually fetches a premium price compared to other reef fish.
Red snapper, or Lutjanus campechanus, grows to more than 35 pounds and lives more than 20 years, although the commercial catch is smaller.
www.usatoday.com /tech/news/2004-07-16-red-snapper_x.htm   (607 words)

  
 Oceans Alive - Red Snapper
Red snapper is a highly popular and heavily exploited American catch that is now closely protected; other species, including silk snapper and Pacific red snapper, are sometimes mislabeled red snapper.
Juvenile red snapper are killed by the millions as bycatch by shrimp trawlers.
Red snapper are found in the western Atlantic, from Massachusetts to the Gulf of Mexico, but they are rare in the Carolinas.
www.oceansalive.org /eat.cfm?subnav=fishpage&fish=133   (305 words)

  
 Matador Records | Red Snapper
London’s Red Snapper are back with their second Warp/Matador co-release, and the first to be released simultaneously worldwide.
As a live act they were respected for their ability to rock the smallest club and the biggest festival with their sound that journalists constantly found hard to describe.
Thair, Friend and Ayers see Snapper as a stepping stone to continued experimentation and success and wrap things up with the 'Heavy Petting' EP on Nuphonic Records and the 'It's all good' compilation on Keep Diggin' records.
www.matadorrecords.com /red_snapper   (492 words)

  
 Something's fishy about so-called red snapper
Their results from purported red snapper samples were a genetic fish stew with just five of 22 fish being genuine red snapper.
Red snapper, found mainly around deep coral reefs and rocky outcroppings along the continental shelf, is caught from the mid-Atlantic to the Gulf of Mexico and is particularly important to commercial fishermen in the Gulf.
According to the study, among the fish being sold as red snapper were two other snapper species from the Western Atlantic that are similar genetically and in appearance.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /national/182120_fish15.html   (586 words)

  
 Endeavors magazine, UNC-Chapel Hill: Red Impostors.
Some of the answers to these questions lie in the fish that were substituted for the red snapper that Marko's class bought.
Five of the fish were other snappers (lane and vermilion snapper) that are also fished in the Western Atlantic where red snapper is fished.
At least two fish from the sample were crimson snapper, which are native to the tropical west Pacific and the eastern Indian oceans.
research.unc.edu /endeavors/win2005/snapper.php   (819 words)

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