To calculate the ounce equivalent of the number on the right side of the decimal point, multiply that number by 16. Thus, 10.4 pounds is ten pounds and four tenths of an additional pound. Hence, the weight reported for a 33-inch snook is the mean of all weights for snook between 32½ and 33½ inches.There is no reason to interpolate! The observed weights are reported in pounds and tenths of pounds-not inches.

The reported weights are the means of all observed weights of common snook, plus or minus one half inch of the size category. In the table below, the first variable to consider is the coast from which the snook was caught. Additionally, because it is currently impossible to distinguish a female from a male snook, we have combined the weights of both sexes and merely output the weight of a sexually generic snook. The coast-wise difference is the most important variable because common snook from the Atlantic coast are significantly heavier at a given length than are snook from the gulf coast. The data consist of over 5,000 observations per coast that were taken during the snook life history study, the Fishery-Independent Monitoring seine project, the catch-and-release study, and from various red tide and cold kill events. The numbers in the table represent the known weights and lengths of snook measured by fishery biologists during the past 15 years.

The formula that uses length times girth squared divided by 800 to calculate an estimated weight of a generalized fish does not fit the highly variable length-weight relationship for common snook, so we provide a table of mean observed weights of snook of known lengths. Because scales are expensive, and it is human nature to want to know the weight of even nonlegal fish, anglers from all across Florida commonly request that we provide the weight of a snook larger than the legal maximum total length of 34 inches. As the benefits of restrictive harvest regulations on this species begin to accrue, however, many lunker snook are currently reported in the catch from south Florida. Prior to 2000, it was a rare event that any angler reported catching, or even seeing, a common snook much larger than 36 inches total length, especially on the gulf coast. Florida Youth Conservation Centers Network.Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail.

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