By Press release submission |
Dec 4, 2022
Studying fish movements is an essential step to establishing and evaluating fisheries management boundaries. In 2011, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) established a Special Permit Zone (SPZ) in the Florida Keys and Biscayne Bay to reduce harvest of Permit and improve the shallow water flats fishery, while maintaining regulations friendly to the fishery in the remainder of the state where anglers are more harvest oriented.