It will be months before James Clark, the executive chef at Waterscapes at the Marina Inn in Myrtle Beach, serves up another grouper platter to his patrons.
A four-month ban enacted by the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council means no grouper for his restaurant.
The ban – which started Jan. 1 and runs through April 30 – prohibits commercial and recreational fishermen from keeping the shallow-water grouper that is caught in federal and state Atlantic waters from North Carolina to Key West, Fla., as well as state waters in the Gulf of Mexico.
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