are sawfish endangered in florida?
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The smalltooth sawfish has been protected from harvest in Florida since 1992, listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act since 2003, and protected from international trade since 2007, when it was listed by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
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Neither the gray nor red fox is endangered or threatened in Florida. Neither species is named on the national endangered species list maintained by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Still, they are protected.
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Sawfish (Pristidae) — Critically Endangered Living in shallow water, they are particularly affected by habitat destruction, as well as illegal trade for their saws.
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Due to overhunting in the United States, they have been completely extirpated from the east, with the exception of the endangered Florida panther, a subspecies occurring in southern Florida. They were officially deemed extinct in North Carolina in 2011 and are believed to have gone extinct as early as the 1930's.
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What is a sawfish? The common name sawfish refers to any member of the family Pristidae (the sawfishes). Despite their shark-like form and manner of swimming, they are rays (batoids).
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There are Florida panthers in the Everglades, but did you know fewer than 100 wild panthers live in all of south Florida today? That number is up from about 20 in the 1970s, but the species is still endangered. ... The National Park Service's Florida Panther Profile.
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Snail Kite. ... The Florida race of this bird, formerly called Everglades Kite, is now endangered. Conservation status. The Florida population is endangered; disruption of water flow (with impact on habitat and snail populations) is the main cause.
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Sightings of large gators are not uncommon in the Savannah area, and sometimes those encounters lead to tragedy. ... And in 2007, a woman was attacked and killed by an 8-foot alligator on Skidaway Island. In June 2016, a 7-foot gator was captured on Tybee Island and subsequently euthanized.
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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission announced snook is slated to reopen for recreational harvest on Friday in Florida's Atlantic coastal and inland waters (from the Miami-Dade/Monroe county line north), including Lake Okeechobee and the Kissimmee River. The season will remain open through May 31.
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Today there are only 120 to 130 Florida panthers left in the wild. They are found in southern Florida in swamplands such as Everglades National Park and Big Cypress National Preserve. The subspecies is so critically endangered that it is vulnerable to just about every major threat.
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The Florida salt marsh vole is protected as an Endangered species by the Federal Endangered Species Act and as a Federally-designated Endangered species by Florida's Endangered and Threatened Species Rule.
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People shouldn't eat fish caught anywhere in Florida's Lake Okeechobee after a blue-green algae bloom near its center tested positive for hazardous toxin levels, an Audubon Florida biologist said Monday. ... The toxin also has been linked to long-term, sometimes fatal, liver disease.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. ... "We have alligators in all 67 counties in Florida. So if you are recreating in a river or lake in Florida the possibility of an alligator being there is one."
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There are without a doubt gators in the river. This is Florida and they are native to our waters. ... The bay that this sits on is the St Lucie River.
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['State and Federally Threatened Giant Garter Snake (Thamnophis gigas)', 'State and Federally Endangered Large-Flowered Fiddleneck (Amsinckia grandiflora)', 'State and Federally Threatened California Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma californiense)', 'State Candidate Tricolored Blackbird (Agelaius tricolor)']
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In Florida, summer fish kills are common; they're caused by nature, but worsened by people. Hundreds of dead fish floated in a canal along State Road 60 west of Vero Beach over the weekend, a scene likely to be repeated throughout the Treasure Coast this summer.