FWC Report
During the week of July 5 through 11, Officers Fernbach and M. McLeod observed a subject walking the bank off Bottoms Road in Panacea carrying a gig and a flashlight. During their resource inspection, the officers discovered the subject did not have a valid fishing license and had six gigged redfish, 10 undersized flounder, and one undersized sheepshead in a cooler. When questioned, the individual claimed he didn’t have any fish. The subject was arrested and taken to Wakulla County Jail charged with six misdemeanors and one noncriminal infraction.
While conducting offshore patrol in federal waters 23 miles southwest of Cape San Blas, Major Creech, Lieutenant Smith, and Officers Nelson and Hartzog conducted a fisheries inspection on a commercial fishing vessel. While approaching the vessel the officers observed one of the occupants remove a piece of fish from the vessel’s bait table and throw the piece of fish overboard. The officers boarded the vessel and during the inspection they located an undersized red grouper and observed reef fish on board not in whole condition. The officers addressed the violations accordingly.
Meet the Editor
David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.