James Uthmeier: “A lot of people thought maybe it was just a joke, but we're serious.”

And then, all of a sudden, you realize it’s more than just a couple of actors here — you’ve got over a dozen people engaged in a statewide network to sell the harvest illegally.

If you’re in close proximity to people, you need to be looking at more than five years behind bars, for sure.

The matter started as something that seemed like a much more minor offense — just some small-scale poaching of some reef fish.

We beat them in court. The 11th Circuit ruled just last week that our law is upheld so it is on the books and these companies are on notice if they don’t follow it, our office is going to take them to court, and they’re going to have to…