{"id":3362,"date":"2013-08-03T05:15:25","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T12:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/somimag.com\/?post_type=article&#038;p=3362"},"modified":"2013-08-03T07:21:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T14:21:58","slug":"panulirus-argus-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/somimag.com\/panulirus-argus-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"PANULIRUS ARGUS TOURNAMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<a id=\"panulirus-argus-tournament\"><\/a><p>An annual tradition hosted by\u00a0Deli Lane\/Sunset Tavern is the\u00a0Spiny Lobster Tournament held on the Friday of the mini sport season.<\/p>\n<p>The spiny lobster <i>(Panulirus argus)<\/i> sport season is the last consecutive Wednesday and Thursday of July each year. Regulated by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, a limit is set for 6 lobsters per person per day for the Biscayne National Park.\u00a0The minimum size for the <i>carapace<\/i> is larger than 3\u201d, measured in the water, and possession and use of\u00a0a measuring device is required\u00a0at all times.<\/p>\n<p>For the tournament, we\u2019re not looking at minimums.\u00a0 The 2013 Spiny Lobster King was 20 year old Joshua Lewis with a 5.02 pound catch (pictured below).<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 20%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3362 gallery-columns-5 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/somimag.com\/spiny-lobster-logo\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/somimag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Spiny-Lobster-logo-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/somimag.com\/trophies\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/somimag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Trophies-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/somimag.com\/winner\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/somimag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Winner-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/somimag.com\/konica-minolta-digital-camera-291\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/somimag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/crab-race-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/somimag.com\/konica-minolta-digital-camera-294\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/somimag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Steel-Drum-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/somimag.com\/konica-minolta-digital-camera-292\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/somimag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Crowd-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/somimag.com\/konica-minolta-digital-camera-293\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/somimag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Jim-Maler+-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An annual tradition hosted by\u00a0Deli Lane\/Sunset Tavern is the\u00a0Spiny Lobster Tournament held on the Friday of the mini sport season. The spiny lobster (Panulirus argus) sport season is the last consecutive Wednesday and Thursday of July each year. Regulated by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, a limit is set for 6 lobsters per<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/somimag.com\/panulirus-argus-tournament\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":3369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/somimag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/somimag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/somimag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somimag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somimag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/somimag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somimag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/somimag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somimag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somimag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}