The Fish

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The Fish Categories.

Dolphin

Kingfish

Wahoo

OB3

1st - 2nd - 3rd

EACH

Gag Grouper

Red Grouper

50/50 Grouper

Biggest of Either

weigh only 1

Yellowfin Tuna

50/50 Yellowfin Tuna

Biggest

Recreational Atlantic Tunas Retention Limits

The recreational yellowfin tuna daily retention limit is 3 yellowfin/person. The minimum size for yellowfin and bigeye tuna is 27" curved fork length. There are no recreational limits for bigeye, skipjack or albacore tunas.

Some useful PDFs for download

2008 State Fishing Regulations

Tagging Tuna

2008Tuna Regulations

	Basic Fish Anatomy



	1) Total length 2) Fork length 3) Standard length 4) Head length 5) Snout length 6) Caudal peduncle (where the body attaches to the tail) 7) Fin rays, spinous (unsegmented) and soft (segmented) 8) First (spinous) dorsal fin 9) Second (soft) dorsal fin 10) Pectoral fin 11) Pelvic (ventral) fin 12) Anal fin 13) Finlet 14) Caudal (tail) fin 15) Lateral line 16) Scutes (bone-like projections) 17) Opercle (gill cover) 18) Preopercle (cheek) 19) Interopercle 20) Adipose eyelid 21) Supramaxilla (rear portion of upper jaw bone) 22) Premaxilla (forward portion of upper jaw bone)