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Monday, November 22, 2004
*The commercial grouper fishery in the Gulf of Mexico has been effectively shut down by the National Marine Fisheries Service after it determined the annual quota of one species, red grouper, was reached
* The future of many local fishing piers damaged by Hurricane Ivan is unknown. Many spans are missing on the two drive-on fishing bridges that once stretched nearly 3 miles across Pensacola Bay. It isn’t known when the Navarre Beach Fishing Pier will reopen, and it could be six months before work begins at the Fort Pickens Fishing Pier.
*It's going to be a while before visitors can return to much of Gulf Islands National Seashore -- damage was worse than expected
-Pensacola News Journal, 11-22-04
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