Speak Up Against Closures, Gang, Your Voice Is Needed

It's urgent that fishing conservationists attend a special hearing on the federal government's proposal to shut down recreational angling in a third of the historic and productive reefs off Florida's southeast coast.

Anglers need to show up and protest against the closures or face the possibility of new no-fishing zones being imposed, even where no scientific research shows depletions of fish populations, according to many users.

The all-day hearings run from 8:30 am. to 5 p.m. June 1 and 2 at the Fern Creek Nature Center in northern Fort Lauderdale. You might bring along a fishing rod and landing net to you're your interest. Here's a map and directions: http://ourfloridareefs.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/fern-forest-directions-and-map.pdf

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