Vol. 14, No. 4 / Market Potential for Red Snapper Aquaculture
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This newsletter summarizes the Red snapper's long-term commercial landings and dockside values in the United States and major producing states. Shifts in landings were measured. It attempts to develop an approach to assessing the market potential of Red snapper for aquaculture. The trends in retail markets are compared by major categories. Empirical commercial landings and dockside price models are developed, identifying significant determinants.
Market potential, Red Snapper, Marine aquaculture.
This newsletter is a contribution of the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station and the Mississippi State University Extension Service. This material is based upon work that is supported in part by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Hatch project under accession number 081730, and Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium using federal funds under Grant NA24OAR4170090 from the National Sea Grant Office, NOAA, U.S. Dept. of Commerce. The statements, findings, conclusions, and recommendations are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Sea Grant Program, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce. This newsletter is a Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Publication number MASGP-24-057-04.
Scientific name: Lutjanus campechanus.
Source: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/species/red-snapper.
They are also known as Snapper, Genuine Red Snapper, American Reds, and Spot Snapper.
Two red snapper stocks are the Gulf of Mexico and the South Atlantic. According to the most recent stock assessments:
Posadas, B.C. 2024. U.S. Market Potential for Red Snapper Aquaculture. Mississippi MarketMaker Newsletter, Vol. 14, No. 4. Mississippi State University Extension and Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Publication number MASGP-24-057-04. April 23, 2024. https://extension.msstate.edu/newsletters/mississippi-marketmaker.
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