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The Summer Solstice Great Greased Watermelon Grab will be run this Saturday. In this terrific family fun event, relay teams compete to retrieve slippery melons from floating patches on Buttonwood Sound and return them to the club beach.

Posted: Friday, June 26, 2009 09:42 AM EDT

A proposal for Florida Bay management offered by marine sanctuary advisors tries to balance protection with local concerns over boating access, say members who worked on it.

Posted: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 12:04 PM EDT

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An officer with the Monroe County Sheriff's Office's marine unit checks a boat during a previous sport-diving lobster season. Agencies are increasing enforcement efforts with the summer season reaching its peak.

With the peak of summer boating season at hand, marine organizations and agencies are ramping up events to keep Florida Keys waters as safe as possible. And nowhere is the need for boating safety more critical: Monroe County had more significant boating accidents (98) and deaths (seven) than any other county in Florida last year, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Posted: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 11:00 AM EDT

Find a lionfish. That was the mission of the day.

Posted: Friday, June 19, 2009 11:00 AM EDT

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John Halas (left), Upper Keys regional sanctuary manager, inspects a nonnative lionfish removed from the Key Largo reef by Lad Akins of the Reef Environmental Education Foundation.

When a boater hooks up to a mooring buoy at the Florida Keys reef, he uses what John Halas describes as the embedment anchoring system. Nearly everyone else calls it the Halas Mooring Buoy System.

Posted: Friday, June 19, 2009 09:46 AM EDT

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