Florida Saltwater Fishing Information
1/15/2010 Sound science for fisheries management
11/24/09 Environmental Defense Fund, Bullying Fishermen And Communities Over Catch Shares
11/23/09 Snook seasons close in December
10/9/09 Everyone needs to go here and read this. http://www.sportfishingmag.com/blog.jsp For those who choose not to believe that the enviro groups have an agenda to stop fishing, pay close attention. For those who don't believe that EDF, OC, and other enviro groups are working hard in other areas to stop fishing and then will bring that effort home, pay close attention.
10/7/09 Boaters Can Help Save Their Own "Working Waterfront"
10/6/09 FEDS TO 60 MILLION AMERICAN ANGLERS: WE DON'T NEED YOU!! Click here for news
7/30/09 Shoreline fishing license requirement starts Aug. 1
7/1/09 NOAA Fisheries Service Announces New Regulations for the
South Atlantic Snapper-Grouper Fishery
6/19/09 New grouper regs in Florida Gulf Waters..click here
6/18/09 Free DSC-VHF Radio Checks For Boaters
In Gulf, FL Atlantic Coast
6/9/09 Shoreline anglers need to buy license by Aug. 1..click here
6/5/09 - Gag grouper is going to be a nightmare in the future. It could be possible for the gag fishery to be closed in 2010. Updates will follow as I get them....
5/29/09 Snook season closes on June 1The recreational harvest season for snook closes on June 1 in Florida’s Atlantic coastal and inland waters, including Lake Okeechobee and the Kissimmee River. The recreational harvest season for snook in all other Florida waters closed on May 1. Snook season will reopen in all Florida waters on Sept. 1.
5/29/09 Gulf red snapper sport season set to reopen(click here for regs)The recreational red snapper harvest season in all Gulf of Mexico waters off Florida reopens on June 1.
Anglers may take two red snapper daily from Gulf waters during the open season; however, the captain and crew of for-hire vessels in the Gulf may not keep the recreational bag limit. The minimum size limit for recreational red snapper in the Gulf is 16 inches total length.
5/8/09 OFFICIAL RED SNAPPER SEASON FOR 2009The recreational fishery will open on June 1, 2009. The closure is effective 12:01 a.m., local time, August 15, 2009, which of course means that August 14, 2009 is the last day to land red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico.
Allocation Analysis of the Gulf of Mexico Gag
and Red Grouper Fisheries - This report is very long and very tedious to read, but it is one that EVERY bottom fisherman in the Gulf of Mexico should read....Then read below what the Gulf of Mexico Fisheries Commission is trying to do to us....Click here for the report
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