FWC Says Apalachicola Bay check stations are effective

            The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says the reintroduction of check stations in the Apalachicola Bay have proved very effective.

Check Stations were set up at the beginning of November to make sure oystermen aren’t harvesting undersized oysters..

The check stations allow state officials to examine the oysters that have been harvested from the Apalachicola Bay to make sure they are at least 3 inches long.

Over the first 11 harvest days, 42 officers inspected 1,011 harvesters and over 2,500 bags of oysters.

Twenty-four warnings were issued for size tolerance as well as 27 citations for size tolerance violations.

Other violations cited were violating bag limit for oysters, no saltwater products license, no Apalachicola Bay oyster harvest permit and boating safety equipment and vessel registration violations.

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