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Good news for Sharks in Florida

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Stephan Whelan
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On November 16th 2011, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) voted to enact a motion put forward to help protect sharks in Florida waters from being caught and killed by anglers.

The commission voted in favour of prohibiting possession, sale, and exchange of tiger sharks, great hammerhead, scalloped hammerhead and smooth hammerhead sharks. These sharks can still be caught, but only if released alive.

The law comes into effect from 1st January 2012.

Good news for Sharks in Florida scuba environment tiger sharks smooth hammerhead sharks scalloped hammerhead great hammerhead Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission conservation Photo by Willy Volk

About Stephan Whelan

Stephan is the Founder of DeeperBlue.com. His passion for the underwater world started early years with a try-dive in a hotel pool that soon formulated into a passion he pursued in all his spare time. He is a BSAC trained Dive Leader and has completed over 1,500 dives as well as enjoying Freediving (a personal best of 28m Constant Weight and a 4 minute breath-hold).

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