The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is giving commercial fishermen a little more time to make their catches of the day by opening up the commercial netting season on False River a month early.

Wildlife and fisheries officials said Monday the decision to kick off the 2014 commercial fishing season on the oxbow-lake this month instead of November came at the request of commercial anglers who wanted to get a jump-start in the highly competitive market.

“We’ve got a large group of dried-up river rats that don’t know much else and who are suffering from terrible competition in the commercial fishing industry from these foreign markets,” said Mike Wood, LDWF’s director of Inland fisheries. “These poor guys really needed our help and we wanted to do anything to help them out.”

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