Here in Islamorada the park service was told to make it as hard on the locals as you can so they closed the 650 square miles of Fla. Bay to boaters and fishermen.
They do this just at a time when fishing is reaching a fall peak with water temps falling and the fish really turning on.
Bonefish, redfish,snook tarpon,trout all and many more are really beginning to turn on this time of year.And we ar not allowed to fish for them.Sept., Oct.,Nov. is a very slow time of the year down here anyway. The regime probably figured out they can make it even worse by closing down the area. True Marxists to the core.
The line is if you get caught the first time you get a warning second time they try and take your boat.
It's all BS but nothing new to us.
ON the ocean side we have had NOAA trying to close off fishing grounds for years and the ENP service on the bay side for over 30 years through a maze of regulation and phony laws from overfishing claims to crocodile protection(while crocs take dogs off local key largo docks and eat them),its all so much barbara streisand.
We still have guys going fishing taking their chances although they are enforcing from the air with planes and by boats on the water.
Never ends down here.