{"id":199082,"date":"2026-03-20T12:21:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T12:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/199082\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T12:21:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T12:21:19","slug":"desantis-announces-changes-to-skyway-fishing-piers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/199082\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis announces changes to Skyway fishing piers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">BRADENTON, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\">WWSB<\/a>) &#8211; Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday that work will be done to the fishing piers at the Sunshine Skyway Bridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">During a news conference at Pier 22 in Bradenton, DeSantis said the pier on the Pinellas County side will be extended while the Manatee County side will be replaced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">One fisherman said the improvements are needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI\u2019m just very excited about the extension and the improvement. It\u2019s been a long time since anything\u2019s been done to make this nicer,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cAnd just like now, there\u2019s no lights that work on the South Side Pier because there\u2019s no power anymore. So getting that ginned up would be really nice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Related coverage: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/03\/19\/governor-desantis-speak-bradenton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/03\/19\/governor-desantis-speak-bradenton\/\">DeSantis signs bill blocking cruise terminal dredging in Terra Ceia<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">DeSantis said the project will restore one of Florida\u2019s most iconic recreational spots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRADENTON, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday that work will be done to the fishing piers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[8052,92085,596,412,202,204,203,199,201,200,35545],"class_list":["post-199082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-bradenton","tag-fishing-pier","tag-pinellas-county","tag-ron-desantis","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-sunshine-skyway-bridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199082","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=199082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}