After a quarter decade of state and federal protection, Florida anglers are now calling for officials to open up the goliath grouper population to fishing. True to their name, goliath groupers can weigh well over 700 pounds and have a ferocious appetite to match.Sunshine State anglers and spearfishermen are growing increasingly worried that the grouper will have a detrimental effect on the local food chain. "The fact is that they're overpopulated," Fort Myers spearfisherman Zachary Francis told the
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