recording. >> How are y'all doing? Good. Probably a little warmer than you. >> This body camera footage begins as a wildlife officer approaches two individuals who have just come in from fishing. >> You guys have some fishing licenses? >> The officer notices lights and gigs in the boat that are typically used for gigging flounder at night. >> Did y'all gig some flounder tonight? >> The fisherman says they didn't gig any flounder, but they did get some blue crabs. Ma'am, do you have a fishing license? >> The officer opens a large cooler filled with blue crabs. How many How many of these crabs are you allowed to have under one license? Uh, two wearable life jackets. >> All right. You got a throwable device. Do you have a valid registration? >> No, sir. I just come >> Huh? >> I just got this boat. >> I didn't make it by there. Do you have your bill of sale? >> I got a >> 4132 Pensacola 1050 vessel. Do you have a whistle somewhere? >> How many of these things can you have? >> Well, we're going we're going to double check, but it should just be a a uh it's just one five gallon bucket. >> Oh, well, that's more than that. >> Yeah. >> Do you have your ID with you, sir? >> Yes. >> Okay. Where are you guys from? Y'all live here in town or >> in Molina? I live there at the forestry tower. Uh, >> have you ever had a fishing line? >> 4132. >> Yeah, you still have one now. Good. >> After some research, the officer determined that the limit on blue crabs is two 10 gallon buckets per fishing license. >> All right, Mr. Floyd, you might be all right cuz we're uh it's it's 10 gallons, not five gallons. But we're going to find out. >> Okay. So, you see that problem there? You see those two? >> What's wrong with them? And what's wrong with that one right there? >> The officer notices gig marks on all the blue crabs. falling. >> Okay. You indicated earlier that you scooped them up, right? >> We scooped them. >> But when we threw them in the >> Those are those are gig marks. >> Yeah. No, but when we threw them in the bottom of the boat, they was trying to pinch us and I held them down and and and stuff like that. >> Those are gig marks. >> Well, yes, sir. There there was a >> to the officer, it appears that the fisherman has gigged all the crabs. >> Yeah. I know this is over the thing and uh and and >> it is illegal to spear or gig blue crabs in the state of Florida. Blue crabs can be harvested using a trap net or hook and line method. >> Ma'am, what was your your level of participation with the harvesting the crabs? >> Did you just sit in the boat and do nothing? >> Yes, I did. >> You sat in the boat and did nothing? >> Yeah. Okay. >> And and man, we passed up I bet you 500 crabs. >> Yeah. >> I ain't never seen them this thick out there. I don't I don't try to break the wall or nothing like that. I just I ain't never mess with this thing. >> That guy is He's still ready for you. >> Yeah, that's get him to pitch on there. Yeah. Come on. >> It's 10 gallons per legal harvester, right? So that means somebody that has a fishing license. >> But you're telling me that you just sat there and did nothing. >> So >> all right. So here here's what I'm gonna issue some citations tonight. >> Yeah. No, once again I take responsibility. Okay. >> I mean it is what it is. >> Yeah. Got it. Great. Appreciate the the attitude. Um so you you'll get you'll get to leave here with 10 gallons worth of crabs. Okay. >> Okay. The other the other ones are going to go are going to go with me. So I'm going to see if we can pour these into there and see what's see what's left over. And uh and then we'll pour your >> your your five gallons in there. You know what I'm saying? >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Huh? >> I'll say yours was a white. >> Are you sure? >> Yeah. >> Cuz you you had a handle, right? >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Oh, you're saying mine. I got you. Yeah, I don't a great buck. >> Okay. All right. >> 4132. >> You can put those in there. >> Yeah. I mean, the registration's expired. >> Oh, yeah. No, >> right. I mean, this is this is all new. >> Yeah, like I said, I >> So, you didn't get the you didn't get the boat just yesterday? >> No, I I did. I welded this all up this afternoon. Really? >> Yeah, that paint my feet was still sticking to it earlier where I rubbed it off on my >> Okay. >> All right. But you guys are going to uh whatever if you want to sit in the truck and stay warm. It's going to take me a little while to >> ride up. The fisherman was charged with exceeding the limit for blue crabs and harvesting the crabs illegally. So, I I issued you you have a mandatory court date. >> Fines could range between $1,000 and $2,000. >> Two charges over the bag limit and illegal illegal method. I wrote you a warning for however you want to cut it. Not having an expired registration, not having your bill of sale, not having your registration certificate. Like there's there's multiple things there. So, um, you need to get that boat registered in your name and or have a bill of sale that's properly filled out. >> Yeah. No, I mean, I can get it in more. >> Okay. >> Okay. Um, any questions on that? >> This is all going to be for you. >> What um which part of it made it the court date? Both of those over the bag limit and and the illegal method. >> Illegal method. >> Putting a gig in in a blue crab is an illegal method. >> Why? And I know, but I said when they were in the bottom of the boat, I was holding them. >> Okay. You you'll have your day in court. It's not It's not not a problem. >> Yeah, you can you'll you'll go that day. I won't I won't be there that day. Um usually that's not how it works. like you would go and then say okay I want you know I want to contest this or I plead no contest or what you know whatever it is like like then I would come then I would come back so um that's how that normally normally Thanks for watching. Watching.