DEP Ranger Mario Gamero holds a handful of discarded fishing line tangled with hooks and lures that he collected on the fishing bridge at Channel 2. (Photo by David Goodhue)
Discarded fishing line, fishhooks, plastic bags, beer and soda cans, fish carcasses and other litter is familiar to anyone who’s spent time on the many fishing bridges throughout the Keys.
Posted - Friday, November 14, 2008 11:25 AM EST
University of Miami fisheries scientist Jerry Ault sounded decidedly unscientific as he fought an energetic bonefish on the wind-whipped flats near Boca Chita Key Wednesday.
Posted - Friday, November 07, 2008 12:00 AM EST
The National Fisheries Service will increase its protection of threatened elkhorn and staghorn corals in Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands through a new rule to prohibit activities that result in death or harm to either species. The new regulations take effect on Nov. 21.
Posted - Friday, October 31, 2008 12:00 AM EDT
Complaints about American crocodiles in Islamorada are on the rise, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said Monday.
Posted - Friday, October 31, 2008 12:00 AM EDT
William Shockley and his teenage son are fishing for freshwater turtles the same way their family has done it for four generations in south-central Florida: deploying about a mile of nylon line holding 1,000 small hooks baited with bits of bacon in the clear, shallow waters of Lake Grassy.
Posted - Friday, October 31, 2008 12:00 AM EDT
