FWC meets in Apalachicola on Wednesday and Thursday

 The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission will meet beginning tomorrow in Apalachicola.

The commission will meet on February 23^rd and 24th in the third-floor courtroom of the Franklin County Courthouse.

This is the second year the commission has chosen to hold a meeting in Franklin County.

The commission will consider a number of items affecting Florida fishermen and hunters including a draft rule to establish three regional management areas for redfish.

The proposed rule would also raise the daily recreational bag limit for redfish from one fish to two in Northwest Florida, create a statewide eight-fish vessel limit and modify the red drum off-the-water possession limit.

They will also consider a proposed draft rule that would make bonefish a catch-and-release only fishery which would only allow fishermen to keep bonefish long enough to take a picture or weigh the fish before releasing them back to the water.

There will also be a number of hunting issues on the FWC agenda including the establishment of youth turkey hunts on 78 FWC-managed areas and the removal of the one-gun restriction on all hog quota hunts using dogs. 

The Commission will also discuss withdrawing the proposal for a tag and reporting system for deer hunting and finalize changes in hunting dates for the 2011-12 season on lands it manages.

Both meeting days begin with recognitions of people whose outstanding work has furthered the protection of wildlife.
On Feb. 23, Commissioners will honor Apalachicola photographer and author John Spohrer Jr.
On Feb. 24, they will pay tribute to two of their own: Tim Breault, director of the FWC’s Division of Habitat and Species Conservation and recipient of the Louise Ireland Humphrey Achievement Award for conservation; and Lt. Anthony “Tony” Wright, recipient of the Lifesaving with Valor Award for rescuing a woman from a burning car north of Jacksonville.
If you would like to see the full agenda for the FWC meeting, we have linked to it on the news page at oysterradio.com.


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