, Wildlife Management Area

Island

Marine Zone*

Depth Contour (feet)

Areas Exposed at 3 Mean Lower Low Water Boca Grande Key * - See Page 2 for detailed zone descriptions 3

Woman Key

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Boca Grande Key, Woman Key Wildlife Management Areas

With certain exceptions, the following activities are prohibited Sanctuary-Wide: • Moving, removing, taking, injuring, touching, breaking, • Operating a vessel at more than 4 knots/no wake cutting or possessing coral or live rock. within 100 yards of a “divers down” flag. • Discharging or depositing treated or untreated sewage • Diving or snorkeling without a dive flag. from marine sanitation devices, trash and other • Operating a vessel in such a manner which endangers materials life, limb, marine resources, or property. • Dredging, drilling, prop dredging or otherwise altering • Releasing exotic species. the seabed, or placing or abandoning any structure on • Damaging or removing markers, mooring buoys, the seabed. scientific equipment, boundary buoys, and trap buoys. • Operating a vessel in such a manner as to strike or • Moving, removing, injuring, or possessing historical otherwise injure coral, seagrass, or other immobile resources. organisms attached to the seabed, or cause prop • Taking or possessing protected wildlife. scarring. • Using or possessing explosives or electrical charges. • Having a vessel anchored on living coral in water less • Harvesting, possessing or landing any marine life than 40 feet deep when the bottom can be seen. species except as allowed by the Fish and Anchoring on hardbottom is allowed. Wildlife Conservation Commission Rule (68B-42 F.A.C.). • Except in officially marked channels, operating a vessel at more than 4 knots/no wake within 100 yards of residential shorelines, stationary vessels, or navigational aids marking reefs. The following activities are prohibited in Great White Heron and National Wildlife Refuges: • Use of personal water crafts, hovercrafts and airboats • Search for or removal of antiquities • Landing of airplanes, helicopters or ultra-lights • Overnight camping on refuge islands • Water skiing • Open fires on refuge islands • Pets on refuge islands • Cutting, damaging or removal of vegetation The following regulations are in place for Boca Grande Key, Woman Key Wildlife Management Areas: • Half the beach on Boca Grande Key is closed. Beach • Half the beach and sand spit on the southeast side of above mean high tide is closed by the U. S. Department Woman Key is closed. Beach above mean high tide is of Interior. closed by the U. S. Department of Interior.

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