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• Volusia County receives Youth Hunting Program’s Landowner of the Year award

  Wednesday, May 1, 2024 -  This program strives to provide quality hunting experiences for 12- to 17-year-olds to increase the number of youths involved in the tradition of hunting.

• FWC names Parrish Thompson as the Victor Heller Hunter Safety Instructor of the Year

  Wednesday, May 1, 2024 -  The award recognizes a volunteer who significantly advances the cause of safe hunting through extraordinary service in training and education.

• Governor DeSantis Announces 103-Day Gulf Red Snapper Recreational Season for 2024

  Tuesday, April 30, 2024 -  This season will include both a summer and fall season which includes major holiday weekends such as Father’s Day, July 4th and the Thanksgiving holiday.

• ICYMI: Historic Investments in Florida’s Water Quality and Manatee Rescue Projects Leads to Another Successful Release of a Manatee in Three Sisters Springs

  Friday, April 26, 2024 -  First Lady Casey DeSantis joined the FWC and SeaWorld at Three Sisters Springs to assist with the release of a manatee back into the wild.

• FWC announces winners of 2024 Florida State Fish Art Contest

  Friday, April 26, 2024 -  Students in kindergarten through 12th grade submitted their artwork in this free contest for a chance to win state and national honors, and prizes.

• Recreational harvest of Atlantic greater amberjack, red porgy, hogfish, blueline tilefish and several grouper will open May 1

  Friday, April 26, 2024 -  Several reef fish species will open to recreational harvest May 1 in Florida state waters of the Atlantic.

• Stone crab season closes May 2

  Thursday, April 25, 2024 -  This annual season closure is intended to increase the stone crab population and build resiliency in the fishery.

• Recreational harvest of snook for Florida’s west coast will close May 1

  Wednesday, April 24, 2024 - 

• FWC issues executive order to reopen recreational harvest of greater amberjack in state waters of the Gulf of Mexico from May 1 – May 31

  Tuesday, April 23, 2024 -  NOAA Fisheries is reopening Gulf federal waters because landings indicate the recreational quota for greater amberjack has not been met and the FWC is also opening state waters to be consistent with the federal season.

• FWC, local, state and federal agencies thwart human smugglers offshore Miami-Dade County

  Monday, April 22, 2024 -  Aboard a 60-foot yacht were approximately 30 migrants of Haitian nationality and two alleged human smugglers. All were taken into custody and turned over to the U.S. Coast Guard for repatriation.