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After a Key Largo workshop Wednesday, the next news on new rules for Biscayne National Park could come with publication of a final management plan early in 2015.

"We've been at this 14 years," park Superintendent Brian Carlstrom said of the effort to update the park's rules and operations. "We hope to get this knocked out next year."

Most of the recent focus has been on creating a new marine zone in the southeast corner of Biscayne National Park, a uniquely oceanic park covering more than 270 square miles from North Key Largo to Key Biscayne.

The park's current preferred plan, called Alternative 6, would establish a 22.8-square-mile Special Recreation Zone where commercial fishing would be banned and recreational fishing access would be limited.

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