FLORIDA — The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission on Wednesday approved the state's first black bear hunt in a decade.

Regulators met in May to lay out the rules for a hunt ahead of the FWC's vote.

Under the proposal, a total of 187 bears will be removed from the state in four designated bear hunting zones.

To participate in this bear hunt, people will need to apply for a bear harvest permit through the commission’s online licensing system and pay a non-refundable fee of $5.

FWC would then issue permits through a random drawing. Florida residents picked would then be required to pay $100 to hunt. Non-residents would have to pay $300.

The FWC’s proposed rules for the hunt limit hunters to one bear per permit.

The four designated areas are:

East Panhandle: Includes

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