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Whale removed from fishing lines off Florida coast (Fishupdate.com)
A team of US federal, state and nonprofit marine mammal experts managed to free a critically endangered right whale this weekend off the Florida coast after it became tangled in fishing lines during its annual migration along the Eastern seaboard.

Government delays use of a recreational fishing registry (The Daily News)
WASHINGTON Recreational saltwater anglers who were supposed to register with the federal government by January are off the hook for a year.

Feds want Florida to help compile saltwater fishermen's directory (The News Herald)
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is poised to act as "sort of the hammer" to push Florida and several other states to help it create a national registry of recreational saltwater fishermen, said Forbes Darby, the federal agency's