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Gulf Fishermens Association Mission Statement Gulf Fishermens AssociationGFAis a Florida notforprofit corporation dedicated to ensuring the fishing future for all fishermen. GFA is made up of primarily commercial fishermen who are concerned about their industry and their future. The Gulf Fishermens Association has been promoting science based fishery management now for over 15 years A small group of fishermen in the Eastern Gulf started this organization to get involved with the fishery management when it looked like the fishery was crashing and stocks were going down. We were going from a year round fishery to three month closures with the inshore grouper and six month closures for the deep water grouper.