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Guide brings whale of a tale to early Miami (Miami Herald)
Early Miami was home to many larger-than-life characters. Capt. Charles H. Thompson, scion of a Bahamian family that migrated to southeast Florida in the 1800s, was one of those compelling characters in the fledgling city.

Outdoors notebook (Miami Herald)
A ban on the practice of shark finning in U.S. waters came closer to enactment this week in Congress. The House on Tuesday passed the ''Shark Conservation Act of 2008,'' which prohibits fishing boat crews from removing shark fins at sea and encourages other countries to adopt similar programs. The measure now goes to the Senate. Shark fins are an expensive delicacy used to make soup favored in ...

Dalu completes grand slam of tarpon fly-fishing titles (The Post and Courier)
A Charleston angler has put himself in some legendary company in the world of fly-fishing for tarpon. There are three major fly-fish tournaments in the Florida Keys for tarpon, and David Dalu, an emergency room physician, became just the fourth angler to win all three of the titles and the first fisherman to win all of them in a single year.

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