CCA Florida worked with the FWC to open a highly regulated Goliath Grouper season.
CCA Florida was invited to be with Governor DeSantis to announce the 57-day Gulf Red Snapper season.
CCA Florida worked with the FWC to create stricter regulations in Atlantic State Waters for Mahi Mahi. We are both working towards tighter regulations in Federal waters.
CCA Florida worked against the FWC proposal to increase the Redfish bag limit in the Big Bend to two fish and succeeded. We also helped to reduce the bag limit to one fish in the northeast and create a catch and release only in the IRL.
CCA Florida intervened in a lawsuit initiated by the commercial fishing industry that is attempting to roll back an important precedent affecting fishery allocations.
CCA Florida worked with FWC and the South Atlantic council to stop wide bottom closures off of Florida’s east coast.
CCA Florida worked with other organizations to oppose the right whale slow speed zones.
CCA Florida and the Duke Energy Mariculture Center have restocked 40,000 trout and 205,000 redfish to date.
CCA Florida successfully completed 12 habitat projects in 2022 including oyster reef restoration projects, oyster restoration studies, living shorelines, artificial reef deployments, and clam restoration projects.
CCA Florida and our National habitat program, the Building Conservation Trust, have contributed over $1.2 million since 2010 for habitat restoration projects around the state. These funds have been leveraged with our partners to create over $9 million in habitat restoration projects in Florida.
CCA Florida’s growing oyster recycling program now has several restaurants currently donating their oyster shells to the tune of over 1 ton of oysters per week. To date, over 100 tons of oyster shells have been collected by CCA volunteers and 60 tons have been returned to the water for restoration projects in Hernando, Manatee, Volusia, Brevard, Charlotte, Lee and Collier Counties.
CCA Florida deployed 7 new artificial reefs in 2022 around the state of Florida while contributing over $140,000.
CCA Florida conducted 6 coastal cleanups around the state in 2022, and to date has removed over 75 tons of trash and marine debris along the coast.
CCA Florida and our partners at FWC, University of Florida and Blair Wiggins Outdoors have re-seeded over 1 million clams back into the Indian River Lagoon in 2022, and re-seeded a total of 15 million clams since 2018.