If the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission hadn’t gotten involved, nobody would ever have believed this story.
It started way up the Eastern Sea-board in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, about 1,000 miles away from the Sunshine State. A boat owner got to his marina, stepped aboard his boat and saw that the table was missing in his cockpit. He soon realized that thieves not only had unbolted and made off with the table, but they also had taken about $30,000 of other gear, including