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There's a new catch to Florida sport fishing.

Sweltering waters, habitat loss and coexistence with human sprawl are taking a toll. As prominent gamefish like snook and tarpon face climate change, career anglers' livelihoods are on the line, too.

Capt. Jamie Allen steers a flats boat using a push pole in Boca Grande, Florida, in August 2025.
(Rylan DiGiacomo-Rapp/WUFT News)

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