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Wildlife Alert Reward Categories

Minimal Category - $25 Reward

  • License violations

Category I - $100 Reward

  • Taking protected wildlife species, closed season or area violations
  • Over the bag limit of small game
  • Over the bag limit of saltwater finfish, shellfish or crustaceans
  • Taking game fish by use of a cast net
  • Unlawful possession of a gun in a wildlife management area

Category II - $150 Reward

  • Unlawful taking/attempting to take alligator
  • Unlawful taking of more than 3 over the bag limit of trout, snook or redfish
  • Buying/selling saltwater species without wholesale license
  • Net transit violations
  • Taking saltwater fish with prohibited gear (excluding nets)

Category III - $250 Reward

  • Unlawful taking, attempting to take or possession of big game
  • Unlawful sale or possession of game fish (commercial quantities)
  • Molesting threatened or endangered species, net violations, trap robbing (lobster, stone crabs, etc.)
  • Boating under the influence
  • Vandalism to an FWC gun range.
  • Taking, possession, selling or buying commercial quantities of saltwater species without a saltwater products license.

Category IV - $1,000 Reward

  • Commercial trafficking of wildlife (except panfish)
  • Taking or killing of endangered species
  • Organized black-market taking and sale of protected species

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