Commercially-caught vermilion, grouper and amberjack are all open this week and that's good news.

• The Vermilion season will be open until May 8.

• Shallow Water groupers (gag, black, red, etc.) are open after a four month spawning closure, hopefully until the end of the year.

• Amberjack and red porgy are also open now.

Additionally, NOAA has also eliminated the proposed snapper-grouper area closure in the South Atlantic, preventing a closure of nearly 5,000 square miles.