{"id":145057,"date":"2026-02-05T18:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/145057\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T18:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:55:10","slug":"52-bears-killed-during-floridas-first-black-bear-hunt-in-10-years-fwc-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/145057\/","title":{"rendered":"52 bears killed during Florida\u2019s first black bear hunt in 10 years, FWC says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission shared new details about the state\u2019s first black bear hunt in a decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Florida wildlife officials reported that 52 bears were killed during a 10-day hunt that began in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The event marked the first black bear hunt held in the state in a decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The state issued a total of 172 permits for the hunt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Participation was spread across seven regions in Florida, with each hunter permitted to kill one bear.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Wildlife officials said no citations were issued to any of the participating hunters during the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission shared new details about the state\u2019s first black bear hunt in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,8659,30,29,8657],"class_list":["post-145057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-fish-and-wildlife","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-wildlife-officials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}