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• Spotted seatrout Central East Region seasonal closure starts Nov. 1

  Monday, October 25, 2021 -  Spotted seatrout will be closed to recreational harvest Nov. 1 through Dec. 31 in the Central East Region, which includes all state and federal waters from Palm Beach through Volusia counties

• Catch a Florida Memory celebrates 5-year “catch-iversary” with program milestone

  Monday, October 25, 2021 -  The FWC Saltwater Angler Recognition program, Catch a Florida Memory, celebrated it’s 5-year anniversary by achieving more than 20,000 approved angler catches.

• Florida's Gulf recreational red snapper quota met, no fall season

  Friday, October 22, 2021 -  Because the FWC cannot allow recreational harvest of Gulf red snapper once Florida’s quota has been reached, Gulf red snapper harvest will not reopen this fall for Florida anglers.

• Catfish stocked in Okeechobee area support angler education

  Thursday, October 21, 2021 -  The FWC recently stocked 1,400 channel catfish in the Okeechobee County Agri-Civic Center and Okeechobee County Sheriff’s Office gun range ponds.

• Hogfish recreational season closes Nov. 1 in Keys/east Florida state waters 

  Wednesday, October 20, 2021 -  This closure includes all state and federal waters south of Cape Sable, which is on the Gulf side of Florida, and up the Atlantic coast.

• Virtual meeting Oct. 28 gathers input on proposed largemouth bass regulation changes for several areas

  Monday, October 18, 2021 -  The areas where the changes have been proposed are Fellsmere Water Management Area (commonly known as Headwaters and Egan Lakes), Victor Lake FMA, Suwannee Lake FMA, and Shop Lake at Tenoroc FMA.

• Share your input on largemouth bass aquaculture for food

  Tuesday, October 12, 2021 -  Recent statutory changes now allow the in-state production and sale of aquaculture Florida largemouth bass as a food fish.

• GoOutdoorsFlorida.com updates offer new look, improved customer experience

  Tuesday, October 12, 2021 -  GoOutdoorsFlorida.com is still the only official licensing site and app of the FWC.

• FWC certifies new state record butterfly peacock bass

  Monday, October 11, 2021 -  FWC fisheries biologists certified a new state record butterfly peacock bass weighing 9.11 pounds and measuring 23 5/16 inches long, caught by angler Felipe Prieto from Hialeah.

• FWC approves new regulations for spot and Atlantic croaker on Atlantic coast 

  Wednesday, October 6, 2021 -  The approved changes are part of a coastwide, multi-state conservation strategy for Atlantic stocks of these species. The approved changes are part of a coastwide, multi-state conservation strategy for Atlantic stocks of these species.