If you don't have reservations at a motel in the Keys for the next few weeks, this is not for you — every cubby hole is now booked there as the annual crush of "bug-lovers" swarms in from every corner of the state for the beginning of the regular spiny lobster season on Monday. There are literally traffic jams of vehicles towing dive boats on U.S. 1 throughout the first week of the season — and it's not uncommon for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to set up checkpoints on the road, flagging down every vehicle pulling a boat to check for over-the-bag-limit or under-the-size-limit lobsters. Not only that, but the commission...
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