A measure to ban lobster traps from a network of 60 small areas along the Florida Keys coral reef tract has earned a strong endorsement from a local commercial fishing organization.
Posted: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 10:09 AM EDT
Environment
Boulder star coral is among the species under review.
Corals possibly threatened by warming oceans will be reviewed by federal officials over the next several months to determine if certain species should be ranked as threatened.
Posted: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 09:55 AM EDT
A North Key Largo fisherman who supports a no-fishing area for 16 square miles of Biscayne National Park waters found himself heavily outnumbered at a congressional hearing Friday in Washington, D.C.
Posted: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 09:41 AM EDT
After years of negotiations and debate, Islamorada and Key Largo have officially decided to share wastewater treatment.
Posted: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 08:31 AM EDT
The time has come to talk rule changes and boundary shifts for protected waters in the Florida Keys, say federal managers.
Posted: Saturday, April 28, 2012 11:00 AM EDT
- Rare endangered sawfish makes Keys appearance
A sawfish, large but still a juvenile, swings by snorkeler Ron Kachmarik of Ohio in shallow water off the Lower Keys on April 13. Scientists want to know everything they can about the endangered sawfish.
An Ohio family snorkeling off a Sugarloaf Key pier April 13 was surprised to be joined by one of the Florida Keys' largest and rarest marine residents.
Posted - Wednesday, April 25, 2012 05:45 AM EDT
- Congressional panel looks at Biscayne reserve
A dispute over proposals to create a 16-square-mile marine reserve in Biscayne National Park brings South Florida congressional representatives and Biscayne National Park managers together at a Washington, D.C., hearing Friday.
Posted - Wednesday, April 25, 2012 06:00 AM EDT
- Miami blue butterfly now federally protected
There is now only a small colony of the Miami blue in the Lower Keys.
The tiny Miami blue butterfly, believed to be reduced to a few hundred survivors on islands off Key West, was formally declared a federally endangered species on April 6.
Posted - Thursday, April 12, 2012 02:21 PM EDT
Scott Deffenbaugh rides Missouri's first zipline at Eagle Falls Ranch in Eminence. Monroe County commissioners extend deadline for Crane Point to pursue state grants for Marathon zipline.
MARATHON
County extends deadline for ziplineThe Monroe County Commission on Wednesday begrudgingly supported extending the deadline for an $85,000 Tourist Development Council grant to Marathon's Crane Point Museum and Nature Center.
Posted - Saturday, April 21, 2012 11:01 AM EDT
Possums, raccoons and other nocturnal critters are winding up in state traps baited to capture invasive Gambian pouch rats.
GRASSY KEY
O' rats, possums and raccoons get trappedTrapping of invasive giant Gambian pouch rats on Grassy Key is anything but foolproof.
Posted - Wednesday, April 18, 2012 05:03 PM EDT
