Wildlife Alert Reward Categories

Minimal Category - $25 Reward

• License violations

Category I - $100 Reward

• Taking protected wildlife species, closed season or area violations
• Over the bag limit of small game
• Over the bag limit of saltwater finfish, shellfish or crustaceans
• Taking game fish by use of a cast net
• Unlawful possession of a gun in a wildlife management area

Category II - $150 Reward

• Unlawful taking/attempting to take alligator
• Unlawful taking of more than 3 over the bag limit of trout, snook or redfish
• Buying/selling saltwater species without wholesale license
• Net-transit violations
• Taking saltwater fish with prohibited gear (excluding nets)

Category III - $250 Reward

• Unlawful taking, attempting to take or possession of big game
• Unlawful sale or possession of game fish (commercial quantities)
• Molesting threatened or endangered species, net violations, trap robbing (lobster, stone crabs, etc.)
• Boating under the influence
• Vandalism to an FWC gun range
• Taking, possession, selling or buying commercial quantities of saltwater species without a saltwater products license

Category IV - $1,000 Reward

• Commercial trafficking of wildlife (except panfish)
• Taking or killing of endangered species
• Organized black-market taking and sale of protected species