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Basic Commercial Fishing Regulations
Species & Area
Size Limit
Trip Limit/
Bag Limit
Closed
Season
Other Regulations
Stone Crab
2 3/4” claw
None
Incidental bycatch -
5 gallons
May 16 -
Oct. 14
*RS, X# or I# required. Landings limited to legal size claws
measured by a straight line from the elbow to the tip of the lower
immovable finger. Transport and sale of intact crabs prohibited.
License, trap and harvest specifications apply.
See: Stone Crab Regulations on page 13.
Swordfish
47” lower jaw
FL with head
attached or 29”
cleithrum to keel
length if head
removed, or 33
lbs. dressed
None
None
*FP required for harvest and sale. Spearing prohibited. Size
limits apply to fish damaged by shark bites. “Lower jaw FL” = a
straight-line measurement from the tip of the lower jaw to the
fork of the caudal fin. “Cleithrum to keel length” = a curved
measurement from the point of the cleithrum that provides the
measurement along the body contour to the anterior portion of
the caudal keel. The cleithrum is the semicircular bony structure
at the posterior edge of the gill opening. A dressed fish may
have its head, viscera, and fins removed, but its backbone
and remaining carcass must remain intact and not be halved,
quartered or otherwise further reduced.
Triggerfish ,Gray p
14” FL
None
Check
MyFWC.com
for recent
updates
Size limit applies to imported fish
Triggerfish, Ocean
None
None
None
Harvest prohibited in John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park.
Triggerfish, Other
See: “Marine Life”
Regulations. pgs. 15
and 23
See: “Marine Life” Regulations on pgs. 15 and 23.
Tripletail p †
15” TL
10 per person per day or
per vessel, whichever is
less. Incidental bycatch
- 2 per person per day
or per vessel, whichever
is less.
None
*RS required. Allowable gear: hook and line. Spearing
prohibited. Size limit applies to sale of fish.
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