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Last year, the Legislature approved changes to section 327.4108, Florida Statutes, which designated Monroe County as an anchoring limitation area

A group live-aboard boaters is trying to secure state permission to keep nearly a dozen homemade buoys in place that are protecting a seagrass flat near Boot Key Harbor.

A group live-aboard boaters is trying to secure state permission to keep nearly a dozen homemade buoys in place that are protecting a seagrass flat near Boot Key Harbor.

Miami, Dec 26 (EFE).- About 15 Cuban rafters arrived in the Florida Keys, a string-like archipelago arching off the southern tip of Florida and made up of some 1,700 islands, amid a rising wave of illegal migrants that has not slacked off despite the Christmas holidays and the colder weather, even in South Florida, due …

The search has ended for nine people from Cuba who were missing at sea off Palm Beach County, and officials are still searching for others after another boat collapsed near the Middle Florida Keys this week.

U.S. Coast Guard on Tuesday, Aug. 9, repatriated 186 Haitian migrants, taking two suspected smugglers into custody, and returned 43 Cuban migrants to their homeland.

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MIAMI -- The U.S. Coast Guard has stopped at sea more than 3,000 Cuban migrants fleeing deteriorating economic, safety and political conditions in the island nation who were heading to the coast of Florida since October -- more than the last five fiscal years combined, according to the agency.

The staggering figure comes as the Coast Guard announced it returned 64 migrants to Cuba.

"Please, for your own safety, don't take to the sea," said Lt. Paul Puddington, Coast Guard District Seven.