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		<title>3 Lower Florida Keys Lobster Mobsters Arrested</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BY ADAM LINHARDT Citizen Staff alinhardt@keysnews.com Three Lower Keys men accused of poaching more than 100 undersized lobsters and out-of-season stone crab off Little Torch Key, including a commercial fisherman and his son, were charged by state wildlife officials Thursday. Benjamin Joseph White, 41, and his son, Christopher Joseph White, 18, both of Little Torch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Illegal Fish Traps Found Near Looe Key</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BY TIMOTHY O&#8217;HARA Citizen Staff tohara@keysnews.com Authorities are looking for an unscrupulous fisherman, or group of them, who placed illegal fish traps off Looe Key, one of the Florida Keys&#8217; most protected and pristine coral reef patches. The first trap was found July 30 anchored to a coral head to keep it from moving from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floridakeystreasures.com/keysblog/2010/08/15/illegal-fish-traps-found-near-looe-key/</link>
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		<title>Key Largo Lobster Mobsters Sentenced to Jail Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By DAVID GOODHUE dgoodhue@keysreporter.com Michael Cavagnaro, the former Key Largo elected official convicted of molesting lobster traps in June, was denied a new trial Friday and sentenced to nine months in county jail. His son, 33-year-old Michael Cavagnaro Jr., was sentenced to four months in jail. Monroe County Circuit Court Judge Luis Garcia also sentenced [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floridakeystreasures.com/keysblog/2010/08/13/key-largo-lobster-mobsters-sentenced-to-jail-time/</link>
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		<title>Fenn Kayak Found Off Key Largo After 6 Week 600 Mile Trip</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Few sights evoke such dreadful uncertainty as an unoccupied vessel adrift at sea. Fears for ill-fated passengers quickly arise from the only immediate clue. Fortunately, the case of a kayak spotted drifting off Key Largo recently ended favorably, as the U.S. Coast Guard located the vessel&#8217;s owner alive and well at his home in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floridakeystreasures.com/keysblog/2010/07/31/fenn-kayak-found-off-key-largo-after-6-week-600-mile-trip/</link>
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		<title>Lobster Mobsters Get Early Start on Mini Season</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By KEVIN WADLOW kwadlow@keynoter.com A Tampa man was charged Sunday with trying to get a three-day head start on lobster season in the Lower Keys. Leon A. Shabott, 46, faces misdemeanor conservation counts for taking 39 out-of-season lobster after Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers found him scuba diving in the Gulf of Mexico, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Key West Lobster Fest 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[KEY WEST, Florida Keys — Melted butter is optional, but a taste for crustaceans is essential at the 14th annual Key West Lobsterfest scheduled Friday through Sunday, Aug. 6-8. The festival commemorates the start of the Florida Keys lobster season with events that include an open-air lobster feast on Key West’s famed Duval Street. Florida [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floridakeystreasures.com/keysblog/2010/07/11/key-west-lobster-fest-2010/</link>
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		<title>More Lobster Mobsters Arrested</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CITIZEN STAFF http://keysnews.com/ Wildlife officers chased two suspected lobster poachers Saturday as they reportedly attempted to out-swim a state boat near Ohio Key, just east of Bahia Honda State Park. One of the men swam to Sunshine Key Camping Resort in the hope of outrunning Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers, but was captured [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floridakeystreasures.com/keysblog/2010/06/24/more-lobster-mobsters-arrested/</link>
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		<title>Key Largo Lobster Mobsters Convicted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By GARY PHILLIPS KeysNews.com Saturday, June 12, 201 Nearly nine months to the day after being accused of molesting a commercial lobster trap, two Key Largo men were convicted on third-degree felony charges. Ruben Barbuscio, 62, and Daniel Peralta, 53, were led in handcuffs from a Plantation Key courtroom after Monroe County Circuit Court Judge [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floridakeystreasures.com/keysblog/2010/06/15/key-largo-lobster-mobsters-convicted/</link>
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		<title>Lobster Mobster Harry Bethel Jr Found Guilty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BY ADAM LINHARDT Citizen Staff alinhardt@keysnews.com It took a jury four hours Friday to find Harry Bethel Jr. and his two mates guilty of pulling another fisherman&#8217;s lobster traps three years ago. Bethel Jr., 48, and co-defendants Shamus Davis, 32, and Lawrence Pinder, 54, were found guilty of one count of trap molestation, a third-degree [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floridakeystreasures.com/keysblog/2010/06/12/lobster-mobster-harry-bethel-jr-found-guilty/</link>
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		<title>Lobster Mobster Caught Off Grassy Key</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By KEVIN WADLOW http://www.keysnet.com Wednesday, June 02, 2010 Fifteen lobster tails were seized as evidence Monday when state wildlife officers arrested a St. Augustine man spearfishing near Grassy Key. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers charged Bruce L. Beall, 39, with 19 misdemeanor counts of conservation violations. FWC officers checked Beall when they saw [...]]]></description>
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