MIAMI AP – A commercial fisherman is charged with poaching thousands of spiny lobsters with traps that damaged coral reefs and sea grasses in sensitive marine waters, in a case that spotlights an ongoing problem off the Florida coast.
U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta said the charges announced Thursday against David W. Dreifort, 41, reflected one of the largest lobster poaching operations ever prosecuted in the southeastern U.S.