With state approval to proceed on new anchoring regulations, Monroe County officials now start work on the next steps of a pilot project to better regulate Florida Keys waters.
On Wednesday, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission endorsed Monroe County's application, which includes Marathon and Key West, along with proposals from Gulf of Mexico sites Sarasota and St. Petersburg.
The Legislature approved the mooring and anchoring program in 2009. Two other pilot sites, on Florida's east coast, have yet to be named.
Rich Jones, senior administrator of Monroe County Marine Resources, will update Monroe County commissioners on the program at the board's March 16 meeting.
"That's the next big thing," Jones said Friday. "The next step in the program [after the commission meeting] is stakeholder workshops and development of draft local ordinances."
Those sessions with liveaboard residents and others have not been scheduled but "will be occurring in 2011," Jones said.
The anchoring pilot programs are intended to let communities in the designated areas to regulate overnight and long-term anchoring by vessels off their shores.
Current law allows counties and governmental agencies to regulate boats only within approved mooring fields, like those in Marathon's Boot Key Harbor and off Key West.
This new program will extend local authority to nearshore areas outside mooring fields, for a trial period ending in July 2014.
Monroe County and the other sites were approved by the state Boating Advisory Council before reaching the FWC.
"We hope the project promotes safe public access to Florida's waters, protects the marine environment and deters improperly stored, abandoned or derelict vessels," said Maj. Jack Daugherty, head of the FWC's Boating and Waterways section.
Monroe County officials, including Commissioner George Neugent and Administrator Roman Gastesi, have expressed concern about the proliferation of anchored boats and abandoned vessels in Keys waters.
Regulated mooring fields for liveboard boats "have been successful," Gastesi said in a November letter to FWC officials, but "the cities that manage them have not been able to address issues associated with anchored non-liveaboard vessels adjacent to their mooring fields."
High costs of docking a large vessel in a marina have prompted a steady increase in liveaboard and stored boats left on the hook -- at anchor -- off Florida shores in years, state officials said. Untended or poorly maintained boats can cause a navigational menace by sinking or breaking free.
"Such vessels [may go] adrift, creating the potential for property and resource damage," says a 2009 Monroe County resolution asking for more authority.
Any regulations forwarded for each local program must be approved by the FWC board and conform to federal maritime law.
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