B. Existing Federal and State Marine Parks and the Key Largo Marine 

 Sanctuary in the Florida Keys and Their Existing Regulations 



1. Everglades National Park at the tip of the Sourth Florida Peninsula 

 (Department of Interior's National Park Service) 



Everglades National Park includes a part of Florida Bay. 

 Five regulations have been proposed in 1979 to: 



Close additional areas of Florida Bay to all public entry to 

 protect crocodile nesting critical habitat. 



Restrict recreational shellfish harvest (blue crab traps, 

 stone crab traps and spiny lobster). 



Establish bag limits for fish species. 



Assimilate State of Florida statutes for commercial 

 stone crabbing. 



Eliminate commercial fishing by December 31, 1985, 

 within the waters of the park. 



Permits for all activities except hook-and-1 ine fishing in the Everglades 

 National Park are required and reviewed by the South Florida Research 

 Center, NPS, Homestead, Florida, who also review permits for the Fort 

 Jefferson National Monument, Dry Tortugas. 



2. Fort Jefferson National Monument. Dry Tortugas 

 (Department of the Interior's National Park Service) 



Located 110 km (65 miles) west of Key West, Florida, Fort Jefferson 

 National Monument which was established to protect Ft. Jefferson but also 

 manages 100,000 acres of coral reefs within park boundaries. The 

 taking or disturbing of any species of coral, shells, shellfish, 

 sponges, sea anemones or other forms of marine life is prohibited 

 with the exception of the recreational catch of spiny lobster 

 ( Panulirus argus ) and conch ( Strombus gigas ) which is limited to 

 2/person/day. Commercial fishing is limited to 40 percent of the 

 monument. The use or possession of spears, gigs, or other forms 

 of spearfishing is prohibited at all times. 



3. Biscay ne National Park in the Northernmost Florida Keys 



(Department of the Interior's National Park Service) 



Biscayne National Park is primarily an underwater park. The "park" 



is actually a monument, as designated by Congress, with rules slightly 



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