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For immediate release: April 1, 2013 Contact: Karen Parker, 386-758-0525 Idle-speed, no-wake zone activated on stretch of Santa Fe River A 32-mile segment of the Santa Fe River is once again an idle-speed, no-wake zone, according to Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) officials. Zone 5, which runs from River Rise within O’Leno State […]

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A campaign promising free shotguns for people to protect themselves in Tucson’s most troubled neighborhoods has divided some residents in a community still reeling from a shooting rampage in 2011that killed six people, left a congresswoman and several others wounded, and made the city a symbol of gun violence in America. […]

Otwin Kandolf said the brown trout he caught recently in New Zealand looked like a submarine because it was so long and abnormally fat. The behemoth, caught in a canal near a salmon farm, weighed 42 pounds, 1 ounce. It’s the heaviest brown trout ever caught in New Zealand and could land Kandolf in the […]

Two-Headed Shark Netted off the Florida Keys! When a fisherman caught a bull shark recently off the Florida Keys, he came across an unlikely surprise: One of the shark’s live fetuses had two heads. The fisherman kept the odd specimen, and shared it with scientists, who described it in a studypublished online Monday in the Journal […]

For immediate release: March 27, 2013 Contact: Amanda Nalley, 850-410-4943   For maps of the included areas, go to: MyFWC.com/News and click on the headline for this story.   4 Florida counties open April 1 to gag grouper recreational harvest State waters off the coast of Franklin, Wakulla, Jefferson and Taylor counties will open to […]