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Two Florida men accused of killing a tarpon after breaking into an aquarium to go fishing
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Read our Privacy noticePolice arrested a second suspect this week over a break-in at a Florida Keys aquarium that led to the death of a large tarpon.
Security camera footage from May 25 last year showed two men entering Florida Keys Aquarium Encounters just before 3 a.m. and unlawfully fishing in the facility’s private lagoon, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.
Afterward, they returned the fish to the lagoon, but aquarium staff discovered it dead the next morning.
Tarpon are prized mainly as catch-and-release sport fish, and are not usually eaten because they have tough, bony meat.