Even the scallop poachers are oddly defensive about OTHER people fucking around with Florida's wild bits. I say this as someone born and raised in Central Florida in the late 70s. Our neighbors would go away with their scuba gear and boat for a weekend and come back with a cooler or two filled with illegal/off season seafood and stories about starting fights with boaters speeding through the shallows (that's how you hit/kill manatees)