Category: outdoors

17th Annual Pensacola Double Bridge Run Opens Registration August 1

Gag grouper will open for recreational harvest in most Gulf of Mexico state waters and all Gulf federal waters July 1. The same day, the season will close in state waters off the coast of Franklin, W…

Today, Governor Rick Scott announced an early start to recreational scallop season beginning on Saturday, June 29th, up two days from the original starting date of July 1. The season will be open in …

Biologists with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) have discovered that a female Florida panther rescued as an orphaned kitten and raised in captivity has given birth just a …

This plant is located on DaLisa Road. The stalk has grown higher than 25 feet and is expected to bloom soon with tiny flowers. Once it does bloom, the entire plant dies. Experts say the plant lives t…

Changes to how Gulf of Mexico gray triggerfish are managed in state and federal waters will go into effect June 10. These changes include a recreational and commercial season closure and the implemen…

Every hunter knows you have a better chance of catching a monster buck off-guard during the first part of hunting season. That’s why many of us enjoy hunting the archery and muzzleloading gun seasons…

Commercial oyster harvest on the summer oyster bars of Apalachicola Bay waters will be shortened from seven days a week to five days a week starting June 1, when the summer bars open to harvest.
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This report represents some events the FWC handled over the past week;
however, it does not include all actions taken by the Division of Law Enforcement.
 
NORTHWEST REGION
 
SANTA ROS…

Pensacola Tides
 
Saturday, June 1, 2013
   1:14 AM CDT Low tide 0.35 Feet
   1:16 AM CDT Moonrise
   5:47 AM CDT Sunrise
   9:28 AM CDT High tide 0.86 Feet
   1:39 PM CDT Moonse…