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Florida Fishing News - Turtle protection plan spurs debate in Florida (Miami Herald) William
Turtle protection plan spurs debate in Florida (Miami Herald)
William Shockley and his teenage son are fishing for freshwater turtles the same way their family has done it for four generations in south-central Florida: deploying about a mile of nylon line on four sets of buoys holding 1,000 small hooks baited with bits of bacon in the clear, shallow waters of Lake Grassy.
Sanibel fishing icon memorialized in cast net rodeo (The News-Press)
File this in the only-in-Southwest-Florida category: a cast net rodeo, where the buckaroos go barefoot and the stock they wrangle has fins, not...
Opting for a seachange (The New Zealand Herald)
The flashy Panamanian gunship seems a little out of place among the ramshackle Creole fishing boats and rusted yachts, but it's the only thing that's real here in Shelter Bay.