by Ed Lallo/Newsroom Ink and Tim Fitzgerald/Environmental Defense Fund,

The red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico has gotten a little less “Red”. The Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch program has removed the Gulf of Mexico red snapper commercial fishery from their ‘Avoid’ or “Red” list.

According to Tim Fitzgerald, senior policy specialist for Oceans Program at the Environmental Defense Fund, “Our partners at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch program, one of the most well-known sustainable seafood program in the United States, have awarded Gulf Red Snapper the ‘Good Alternative’ rating.

“Hearing this today is the most positive fishery success story I have witnessed in the Gulf in years,” said Jim Goosen, chairman of Sysco Louisiana Seafoods in Houston.

Read the full story at GulfSeafoodNews.com.