{"id":427063,"date":"2026-10-13T23:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T23:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/427063\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T23:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T23:40:08","slug":"florida-stone-crab-season-opens-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/427063\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida stone crab season opens Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SARASOTA, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\">WWSB<\/a>) &#8211; Florida\u2019s stone crab season is set to open Thursday, Oct. 15, bringing fresh seafood back to markets for the first time in nearly six months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The manager at Starfish Company said the season is important for fishermen\u2019s income.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt\u2019s huge, especially for the fishermen. You know, that\u2019s probably half of their income for the year, you know, or more,\u201d the manager said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/10\/07\/parrish-fall-festival-returns-sunday-with-free-family-fun-food-drive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/10\/07\/parrish-fall-festival-returns-sunday-with-free-family-fun-food-drive\/\">Parrish Fall Festival returns Sunday with free family fun, food drive<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The manager said business at Starfish Company also increases once the season begins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cBusiness doubles once stone crab starts because it\u2019s been six months since they\u2019ve had any. So everybody\u2019s really wanting them,\u201d the manager said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Crab traps were placed in the water 10 days b<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; Florida\u2019s stone crab season is set to open Thursday, Oct. 15, bringing fresh seafood&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,167906,167902,167904,167903,167905],"class_list":["post-427063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-florida-seafood-season-opening","tag-florida-stone-crab-season","tag-starfish-company","tag-stone-crab-2026","tag-stone-crab-fishermen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427063","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=427063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}