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New Federal Task Force to Unify Research, Management, and Mitigation Efforts Against Increasing Shark-Fishery Interactions.
Recreational and commercial fishing in the 1970s and '80s took a large toll on shark populations, but recent conservation efforts have been successful. Legs kicking lazily in the water. An unknown ...
Two Palm Beach County men running a tourist shark-diving charter who cut what they believed was an illegal shark fishing line, but was actually an authorized commercial set-up, have been granted ...
Shoreline Shark Conservation, based in Little River, and Gregory Haskins, a Murrells Inlet fisherman, filed suit to stop ...
Trump pardons Florida diver who faced felony charges after cutting a longline and releasing 19 sharks, believing he was stopping illegal fishing activity.
Florida is home to 20 different species of sharks. Each species of shark plays a vital role in the marine ecosystem by regulating the populations of other aquatic animals.
In Florida, where commercial and recreational fishing supported $24.6 billion in economic activity in 2022 alone — a figure that includes fishermen’s sales as well as related retail ...