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all right we're getting a shot AT3 if it was one or two over okay but you're 19 over but the only the only kind of break you guys are getting for this is I'm not taking you to jail your two options on this or a court date or a ride to the jail and I'm giving you guys the court date instead okay being charg with the mem here on July 21st 2024 an officer with the Monroe County Sheriff's Office was doing a routine resource inspection when he made contact with four individuals leaving a bridge in the Florida Keys upon inspecting their cooler he discovered they were in possession of 39 mangra Snapper 19 over the legal limit my grandp okay and my grandpa okay how old's your grandpa uh 82 okay 7 41 he doesn't need a fishing license I'll run him by I I'll look everybody else up after okay let's uh right here works so what happens when we so there it's going to be a court date we'll talk about it all once we count everything and see how many there are okay do you know who caught which fish you don't know who caught what fish yep five 6 7 [Music] [Music] [Music] we'll talk about on a second [Music] 37 38 39 a good size Yellow Tail for 40 okay so for mang gr Snapper you're allowed to have 20 okay you have 39 all right the 40 Snapper limit is for all the different kinds of species combined okay so you could have 40 Yellow Tail and be totally fine all right but you're only allowed five mangr into that 10 limit I can show you what I what I search up and it said for Harvester 10 Snappers 10 Snappers but not mangr Snappers okay you know cuz when you look it up for the liit snaer it tells like the yellow te Snapper the Snappers it tells you like each one I thought the all Snappers meant the 10 no I'll show you right here understand no I understand it was just that we got confused we just you know yeah put right there bag limit five and how how do we have that information cuz I I Googled it to make sure on fwc's website The Fish rules app what were you guys using to measure the ruler let me see the ruler I'm just worried Nur I don't know that's okay so you guys have one of the older ones let me see it so some of the newer ones it tells you what the limits are on it actually say it right here on your ruler mangr Snapper 10 in bag five I it up okay I can show you my phone is on Safari right now and yeah go ahead and show me yeah that's just Snapper so if you click on this and go to the regulations you'll see mang Groves are completely different when I saw Snapper and see what I was telling you I looked up the limit for each one cuz when I got the Yellow Tail I didn't know so I search it up and I had searched up the other ones too and it's 12 so it's like 10 minimum little for gray mang but then when you click on it right and you actually go to it and you zoom in it'll tell you that mango Snapper are five there's a reason why it's five these fish are highly regulated it's why we have size limits is why we have all this my whole job is just enforcing this okay and so do you have any way to separate who caught which fish do you know how many fish you caught do you know how many fish you caught no you and grandpa has no idea either okay so I'm going to line all the fish up I'm going to take photos of all the fish okay does Grandpa have a photo of his license or anything like that no he doesn't have a license he has a res does he have a residence does the residence card with him I can ask my mom to send me a picture that would be fine but he you don't know if he has that residence card with him want I got you and then do you have any kind of ID on you no that's the only one anything with your photo or anything like that I can I can see picture no not for this many if it was one or two over okay but you're 19 over and if we have more people by they have fishing licenses no they weren't here fishing yeah they were they were but they left they they they were to to the Bri okay when I first asked you guys when I got on the top of the bridge how many are you fishing you said four but no the only the only kind of break you guys are getting for this is I'm not taking you to jail your two options on this or a court date or a ride to the jail and I'm giving you guys the cour date instead okay St depends if the state wants to prosecute or however it all happens are you sorry that I keep asking go ahead I've worked is there we that we that we still pay the that change already that's going to be up to the court I have I the only thing I do is I initiate the charge all of that stuff is up to the state attorney's office and everything like that they will they they may offer you a plea deal where they lessen the fine amount or lessen the charges or whatever it is but that's going to be completely on them and arrest uh you'll get a notice to appear for us a resource citation with dat what is it a it's a notice to appear it's not a physical arrest but it is a it's a notice to appear that you have to appear in court yeah you know I'm asking because I'm a Nur have to the so I just want to know that's I can do for you're being charged the M here right now I'm just waiting for uh one of my FWC Partners to get here so we can start doing everything I am going to give you guys the benefit of picking which fish you want to keep um we can put we can put that Yellow Tail Back in the cooler actually the Yellow Tail is right here this one this one this one just that one the rest stay out the rest stay out all right can you just take a step back for me so it's 39 mangroves and one Yellow Tail and back in the corol there going to be at least 14 15 inches on the Yellow Tail 17 in yeah he was a big Yellow Tail so for the people who don't normally have who don't have IDs on them how do you do the photographs of the fish without it just without it all right so here's what we're going to do okay you guys need to pick 20 fish to keep all right I'm going to let you pick them so you can pick all the biggest ones if you want okay but pick 20 okay you guys can start doing that now just when you when you pick the ones you want to keep put them over here don't put them in the cooler yet 18 19 20 that should leave 19 here 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 okay you can put all those fish back in that cooler you can keep loading everything else too you want to see if I get an ID for him he has a residency card though right okay yeah no but he has the residence card so it has the number on it still yeah nobody knows who caught which fish or how many each one of them caught how old is the girl she's in nursing school she was born in 01 so she's 21 yeah 21 97 and 95 and then the grandpa and she was like I thought mang gr Snapper were 10 too so I had her show me her ruer where it says they're five she showed me all the websites she checked I told her if you just clicked on the website it would have told you it was five yeah any kind of fishing trouble so it's going to be uh August 2nd at 9:00 a.m. in front of Judge Wilson okay here's the address to the courthouse okay it's yep you can have an attorney appear for you and things like that too okay yeah it's for Florida administrative rural related to Snapper for being over the bag okay I need your signatures your signatures are not an admission of guilt it's just stating you understand you must appear at that date at that time okay we'll start with you Raul all right we're going to take those other fish and we're there's an app for the phone it's called fish rolles okay1 fish you can help me explain this so if you're if you're fishing from a bridge in the keys five per person the only time you can keep 10 per person is if you're on a boat in federal waters you have to be further than 3 miles then you could have 10 but they got to be 12 in I explained to him that I I looked it up because yeah you just got to make sure if you look it up that it's different from federal water s 10 fish per Harvest that's aggregate you're allowed 10 but only five five of those 10 perfect so there's a there's an app called fish rolls okay that app you search the exact fish you click on it it tells you size limits how many you catch and it goes off the GPS for where you are we still have you know enough to fishing but we we reached the we were we were counting before we left just to make sure that we weren't if there if there would have been like yellow Tails yeah so that one Yellow Tail you had to make it to your 40 right that Yellow Tail is totally good different fish yes exactly and that's why you were and that's why you were able to keep 20 m Groves and still have that one Yellow Tail yeah yeah okay I get it now I just when I read it it was just in general it didn't matter I got you all righty you guys are free to go make sure you go to your court dates okay Fish rules Fish rules can you pull your uh truck around yep 15 thank you for everything still 19 people really try to pull a fast one like that that's why in the end all four suspects were issued notices to appear for misdemeanor charges according to court records the state attorney's office recognized the attempt to do a Google search for the fishing regulations as a result three of the suspects were ordered to complete an ffw course and each had to pay $313 in total cost Elaine the 26-year-old male is currently represented by an attorney and his case is still ongoing if you like this video and want to see more like it subscribe to a rest cam as always thanks for watching
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