Coast Guard Seizes 450 Red Snapper Poached off Texas Coast
By Lynn Burkhead, OutdoorChannel.com
With the U.S. federal water red snapper season only hours old this past Sunday, June 1, the U.S. Coast Guard was involved in an interdiction with a Mexican fishing crew found poaching the species off the coast of South Texas.
According to a U.S. Coast Guard news release, the operation began after an Air Station Corpus Christi air crew spotted a 25-foot Mexican fishing boat - also known as a lancha - just after the midday hour some 30 miles offshore and 70 miles north of the U.S./Mexico border.
That prompted the launch of a Coast Guard air crew aboard a MH-65 Dolphin helicopter stationed out...