Red Snapper

  • Also Known As: Northern red snapper
  • As Noted In: 1001 Foods You Must Taste Before You Die, B E S Publishing

Red Snapper is a marine fish native to the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of America, the Gulf of Mexico and the western Atlantic Ocean as far north as Massachusetts. Valued both commercially and by sport fishermen, it is often prepared by oven-roasting a whole, gutted, and scaled fish, stuffed with fresh herbs, until a thermometer inserted into the thickest part registers 135 degrees Fahrenheit, or 57 degrees Celsius. - AsNotedIn





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Y/M/D Person Association Description Place Locale Event
1764/00/00 "all the Bays and Lagoons (of Florida) are full of the best and most delicious kinds of Fish ... a ship in a few days may catch her lading of Groupers, Snappers, Brim, and Cod...." British official survey
1840/00/00 Mid century fishermen from the northeastern Canada fill their boats with ice cut from ponds, head south and resupply in Pensacola before fishing off shore for grouper and snapper. Palafox Wharf Pensacola, FL
1845/00/00 In the 1840s and 1850s, fishermen from the northeastern Canada sell ice-packed grouper and snapper, caught off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, in ports like Savannah and Charleston on the Atlantic coast. Charleston, SC South Carolina
1850/00/00 Fishermen from the northeastern Canada offer ice-packed grouper and snapper, from the waters of Pensacola, Florida, in Atlantic ports like Savannah and Charleston. Savannah 1818 District
1860/00/00 Cuban zoologist Felipe Poey identifies northern red as Mesoprion campechanus in Campeche, Mexico. State of Campeche Mexico
1872/00/00 A New Englander brings fishermen and well smacks (large schooners of 50 to 60 tons, carrying 8 to 12 men, can spend 17 to 32 days at sea, the well is a tank for fish) from the North and builds a fish house for shipping red snapper. Palafox Wharf Pensacola, FL
1885/00/00 Fishermen find bountiful catches of Red Snapper in the shallow waters near the continental shelf off the west coast of Florida, 1885-1910. By the 1950s, red snapper will be overfished in Florida.
1892/00/00 Commercial Red Snapper fishing moves to the shallow water off the south coast of Louisiana and the north coast of Yucatan peninsula in Mexican.
1975/00/00 In the 1970s, Mexico passes an exclusive economic zone that prohibits American fishermen from fishing for snapper in Mexican waters.

Food Type Fish

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Particulars for :
Product Kind Food
Area of Significance Marine Biology
Food Form Victual
Fish Attribute White Fish




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