07/23/2025
Season: July 30-31, 2025 (last consecutive Wednesday and Thursday of July each year, for residents and non-residents)
🦞 A MESSAGE FROM THE FLORIDA KEYS LOBSTERS
YOU WANNA CATCH US? COOL. JUST DONT BE AN IDIOT ABOUT IT 🦞
1. SIZE MATTERS.
Measure our back shell (carapace). Over 3 inches or put us back. We have self-worth.
2. DIVE FLAG OR DIE.
Flag UP when you’re flailing underwater. DOWN when you’re done pretending to be Aquaman.
3. SIX AND NOT ONE DAMN MORE.
Six lobsters per person, per day.
Not six and a “bonus one” named Carlos. We count. FWC counts harder.
4. DON’T TOUCH THE TRAPS.
See a trap? Keep walking, pirate. Touch it and you’re committing a sea felony.
We hope you enjoy explaining that to a very angry officer named Chad.
5. SAFETY FIRST, DU***SS.
Bring your gear. Or float into the Bermuda Triangle and leave us out of it.
6. IDLE MEANS CREEP MODE.
See a dive flag? Go sloooow. Like hungover-on-a-Monday slow.
Run someone over and it’s YOUR name on the nightly news, not ours.
7. CORAL IS NOT YOUR BEACH CHAIR.
Don’t touch it. Don’t stand on it. Don’t anchor on it. That’s our real estate and rent is high.
👀 FWC is LITERALLY EVERYWHERE.
In boats. Behind seaweed. Maybe even disguised as lobsters.
Break the rules and they will ruin your day.
Spiny Lobster | FWC
