New Florida Rules To Protect Sharks
FWC commission passed multiple regulations at their meetings last week with the goal of protecting sharks. Some of the regulations require shore-based shark anglers to release protected species while the gills…
GANSBAAI, SOUTH AFRICA – OCTOBER 19: A Great White Shark is attracted by a lure on the ‘Shark Lady Adventure Tour’ on October 19, 2009 in Gansbaai, South Africa. The lure, usually a tuna head, is attached to a buoy and thrown into the water in front of the cage with the divers. The waters off Gansbaai are the best place in the world to see Great White Sharks, due to the abundance of prey such as seals and penguins which live and breed on Dyer Island, which lies 8km from the mainland. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
(Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)FWC commission passed multiple regulations at their meetings last week with the goal of protecting sharks.
Some of the regulations require shore-based shark anglers to release protected species while the gills are still in the water and chumming from swimming and recreational beaches has been banned.
The new rules will go in to effect on July 1.
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