With Florida RAS, Pine Island Redfish working toward red drum revival
Megan Sorby is hoping to reignite commercial interest in red drum through her new company, Pine Island Redfish.
For over three decades, red drum – commonly known as redfish – has not been available to commercial fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico after stock assessments found declining populations after heavy overfishing in the 1980s. In the span of a decade, the species disappeared from U.S. menus, and although there are a few aquaculture operations sprinkled across the U.S. South that produce red drum, their volumes are not large enough to support a national market.