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• Recreational red snapper summer season closes Aug. 1 in Gulf state and federal waters

  Thursday, July 28, 2022 -  The season closes Aug. 1, reopening for five fall weekends beginning Oct. 8.

• Reminder: The 2022-23 greater amberjack season starts Sept. 1 in Gulf state waters

  Thursday, July 28, 2022 -  FWC issued an executive order to modify the 2022-23 recreational season, previously open on Aug. 1, for greater amberjack in state waters of the Gulf of Mexico during its July Commission meeting.

• Spiny lobster seasons start soon

  Friday, July 22, 2022 -  The 2022 spiny lobster season opens with the two-day recreational mini-season on July 27 and 28, followed by the regular commercial and recreational lobster season, which starts Aug. 6 and runs through March 31, 2023.

• Nearly 100 impaired vessel operators removed from Florida waterways during Operation Dry Water

  Thursday, July 21, 2022 -  The Independence Day weekend is one of the busiest boating holidays of the year and FWC officers, with the partnership of many other law enforcement agencies, were on the lookout for impaired boaters throughout the “Boating and Fishing Capital of the World.”

• Commissioners approve final rule establishing a Vessel Turn-In Program as part of derelict vessel prevention efforts

  Thursday, July 14, 2022 -  The new rule will create a voluntary program to remove at-risk vessels before they become derelict, which helps Florida’s environment and public safety.

• FWC approves new black crappie fishing regulations

  Thursday, July 14, 2022 -  The regulatory changes remove waterbody-specific length and bag limits to revert to the statewide regulations of no minimum length limit and a 25-fish bag limit.

• Two Burmese pythons, clutch of eggs and hatchlings found and removed from Big Cypress National Preserve

  Thursday, July 14, 2022 -  In addition to python removal efforts on public lands, pythons may be humanely killed on private lands at any time with landowner permission — no permit or hunting license required — and the FWC encourages people to remove and kill pythons from private lands whenever possible.

• FWC’s School Fishing Club Program expands name to include more students

  Wednesday, July 13, 2022 -  At its July meeting, the FWC unanimously approved changing the name of the High School Fishing Program to the School Fishing Club Program.

• FWC biologist Matt Vance recognized as Jim Stevenson Resource Manager of the Year

  Wednesday, July 13, 2022 -  Vance’s responsibilities included managing 17,294 acres of the Lake Wales Ridge WEA and leading its associated field office of seven employees, which he had been doing since 2016.

• FWC approves final rule to modify gag grouper recreational season in Gulf state waters

  Wednesday, July 13, 2022 -  The recreational season for gag grouper in Gulf state waters will be open Sept. 1 – Nov. 10.