Wildlife
Smalltooth Sawfish in Charlotte Harbor — The Endangered Prehistoric-Looking Fish You Should Never Touch
The smalltooth sawfish is the only Florida elasmobranch on the federal Endangered list — a 14-foot ray with a chainsaw nose that lives almost nowhere on Earth except Charlotte Harbor and the Everglades fringe. If you ever hook one, federal law is one sentence: cut the line, don't lift, don't pose.