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IF YOU GO. Lobster seasons: The annual lobster miniseason runs from 12:01 a.m. July 27 through midnight July 28. The regular season is Aug. 6-March 31. Licenses: You must have a saltwater fishing ...
The 48-hour mini-season for Florida’s spiny lobster opened today as S. Floridians headed out to take advantage of the abbreviated annual event along the Sunshine State’s coastline on Wednesday ...
The bag limit for spiny lobsters during the regular season is 6 per day per person. But during this two-day mini-season (and the extra day on July 14 added this year) the bag limit is doubled to 12.
In Florida, there is a season where the spiny lobster may be taken, usually from the beginning of August to the end of March, to protect the species during its main breeding season. A special "mini season" a few days before the start of the regular lobster season gives recreational divers a "head start" in catching them.
The main legal restrictions on fishing for California spiny lobster in Mexico are a minimum landing size of 82.5 mm (3.25 in), the prohibition of catching berried females, and a closed season: [7] from February 16 to September 14, fishing for spiny lobsters is prohibited in a region which moves south along Mexico's Pacific coast during the season.
Lobster is fished in water between 2 and 900 metres (1 and 500 fathoms), although some lobsters live at 3,700 metres (2,000 fathoms). Cages are of plastic-coated galvanized steel or wood. A lobster fisher may tend to as many as 2,000 traps. Around the year 2000, owing to overfishing and high demand, lobster aquaculture expanded. [86]
Four people went to jail in Marathon for having 27 undersized lobsters.
Panulirus ornatus (known by a number of common names, including tropical rock lobster, [3] [4] ornate rock lobster, [5] ornate spiny lobster [2] and ornate tropical rock lobster [6]) is a large spiny lobster with 11 larval stages.