Line entanglement can pose a great risk to sea turtles. For this reason, local marine life experts say that anglers should know proper protocol for accidentally hooking a turtle, especially when fishing from a pier.
A recent trend of stingray incidents on Navarre Beach conjures memories of this writer’s own run-in with a ray – and better yet, of the advice on how to avoid being injured by these sea creatures.
Pensacola Beach’s record-setting number of sea turtle nests this season are starting to hatch. Three of the 20 nests have hatched, confirmed Mark Nicholas, a biologist with Gulf Islands National Seashore.
A family with plenty of beach experience and encounters with marine life, the Damrons didn’t get overly excited when they first saw a fin moving through the water and coming toward them last Thursday on Navarre Beach.
This year’s Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) serving at the Gulf Islands National Seashore included five Navarre High School students, along with other teens from Gulf Breeze and Pensacola.
Recreational season for gray triggerfish and greater amberjack opened today in Gulf of Mexico state and federal waters. The commercial harvest of gray triggerfish also reopened today in Gulf state and federal waters.
NEW ORLEANS — Fishing regulators voted to increase this year’s red snapper quota by 2.5 million pounds and to start a recreational season Oct. 1 if the anglers’ share of the catch so far allows it.
There is much excitement over projects planned by two groups housed in county property at Navarre Beach County Park. Santa Rosa County Commissioners heard two separate funding requests from the lessees at the July 22 committee meeting.
