Shellmark: Shellfish Seasons
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Check the season, the zone, the limit.
Verify current FWC rules.
Shellmark is a harvest companion for 11 Florida species: bay scallops, spiny lobster, stone crab, and blue crab, plus shrimp, blue land crab, sea urchin, octopus, and the no-take queen conch, horseshoe crab, and Bahama starfish, which it always shows as prohibited. It answers what you ask before you hook up the boat -- is the season open, is my spot in an open zone, how many can we keep.
BEFORE YOU LEAVE THE DOCK
Season countdowns. Each species shows open or closed, plus days left in the season or days until it opens, from Shellmark's bundled regulations data and your device clock.
Where you stand. Shellmark checks your GPS position against bundled zone boundaries on the device: inside an open zone, inside a no-take zone, near a boundary, or outside every zone the app models. Boundary calls use a half-nautical-mile band plus your GPS accuracy, and a weak position returns VERIFY rather than a confident wrong answer. Today the map screen shows an SVG zone chart.
Bag and vessel limits. Pick a species and a party size; Shellmark shows the lesser of the per-person limit times the party and any vessel cap. A closed rule returns zero, whatever the party size.
Where the rule came from. Regulation rows can show the FWC source URL and retrieval date behind them.
A go-out verdict for the day. Green (GOOD TO GO), Yellow (USE CAUTION), or Red (STAY IN), scored from marine weather, wind and seas, tide, storm advisories, and forecast text. Missing safety data floors the verdict at yellow, so a lost input can never make the day look better than it is. The verdict reads conditions only -- never that a season is open, a zone is harvestable, or a take is legal.
Emergency closures. On open, Shellmark checks its own closures channel for FWC emergency closures (bundled fallback copy) and shows a banner. An unreachable read reports unavailable and moves to verify, never "nothing is closed." No notifications are sent.
A harvest log that stays yours. Species, quantity, notes, an optional photo reference, and an optional saved spot, written to your device only.
PRIVACY, BY DESIGN
No account, no sign-in, and no persistent identifier tying stored data back to you. Your harvest log, saved spots, and photo references stay on the device: delete an entry or uninstall the app and they are gone. Nothing leaves the device unless you export it yourself.
Location is read only while the app is open; background location is blocked in the app's own configuration. Zone and season classification runs on the device, and those coordinates are not transmitted. Fetching live conditions does send your coordinates to the National Weather Service with no name or account attached. NOAA's tide service receives only a nearby tide station ID.
No first-party analytics or telemetry of any kind. Ads are always requested non-personalized, with no setting anywhere to turn personalization on; the Google AdMob SDK itself collects device and advertising identifiers as part of serving ads. Every network request uses HTTPS.
WHAT IT COSTS
Free with ads. Pro removes ads and adds harvest-log export: $9.99/year, auto-renewing (manage or cancel in Google Play > Subscriptions), or a 30-day pass for $4.99 that does not renew.
Shellmark is informational only and is not legal advice. Season dates, zone status, and limits shown are estimates based on your device's GPS position and Shellmark's own regulations data, which may lag a real-time FWC emergency closure. Always confirm current Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) rules before you harvest. Shellmark is not affiliated with or endorsed by FWC or the State of Florida.
Harvesting, boating, and diving carry real risk. Shellmark is not a safety device; use it at your own risk.
Brainstorm Innovative Technologies, LLC
12409 Curley St., Suite 103, San Antonio, FL 33576
support@brainstorminnovative.com
Verify current FWC rules.
Shellmark is a harvest companion for 11 Florida species: bay scallops, spiny lobster, stone crab, and blue crab, plus shrimp, blue land crab, sea urchin, octopus, and the no-take queen conch, horseshoe crab, and Bahama starfish, which it always shows as prohibited. It answers what you ask before you hook up the boat -- is the season open, is my spot in an open zone, how many can we keep.
BEFORE YOU LEAVE THE DOCK
Season countdowns. Each species shows open or closed, plus days left in the season or days until it opens, from Shellmark's bundled regulations data and your device clock.
Where you stand. Shellmark checks your GPS position against bundled zone boundaries on the device: inside an open zone, inside a no-take zone, near a boundary, or outside every zone the app models. Boundary calls use a half-nautical-mile band plus your GPS accuracy, and a weak position returns VERIFY rather than a confident wrong answer. Today the map screen shows an SVG zone chart.
Bag and vessel limits. Pick a species and a party size; Shellmark shows the lesser of the per-person limit times the party and any vessel cap. A closed rule returns zero, whatever the party size.
Where the rule came from. Regulation rows can show the FWC source URL and retrieval date behind them.
A go-out verdict for the day. Green (GOOD TO GO), Yellow (USE CAUTION), or Red (STAY IN), scored from marine weather, wind and seas, tide, storm advisories, and forecast text. Missing safety data floors the verdict at yellow, so a lost input can never make the day look better than it is. The verdict reads conditions only -- never that a season is open, a zone is harvestable, or a take is legal.
Emergency closures. On open, Shellmark checks its own closures channel for FWC emergency closures (bundled fallback copy) and shows a banner. An unreachable read reports unavailable and moves to verify, never "nothing is closed." No notifications are sent.
A harvest log that stays yours. Species, quantity, notes, an optional photo reference, and an optional saved spot, written to your device only.
PRIVACY, BY DESIGN
No account, no sign-in, and no persistent identifier tying stored data back to you. Your harvest log, saved spots, and photo references stay on the device: delete an entry or uninstall the app and they are gone. Nothing leaves the device unless you export it yourself.
Location is read only while the app is open; background location is blocked in the app's own configuration. Zone and season classification runs on the device, and those coordinates are not transmitted. Fetching live conditions does send your coordinates to the National Weather Service with no name or account attached. NOAA's tide service receives only a nearby tide station ID.
No first-party analytics or telemetry of any kind. Ads are always requested non-personalized, with no setting anywhere to turn personalization on; the Google AdMob SDK itself collects device and advertising identifiers as part of serving ads. Every network request uses HTTPS.
WHAT IT COSTS
Free with ads. Pro removes ads and adds harvest-log export: $9.99/year, auto-renewing (manage or cancel in Google Play > Subscriptions), or a 30-day pass for $4.99 that does not renew.
Shellmark is informational only and is not legal advice. Season dates, zone status, and limits shown are estimates based on your device's GPS position and Shellmark's own regulations data, which may lag a real-time FWC emergency closure. Always confirm current Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) rules before you harvest. Shellmark is not affiliated with or endorsed by FWC or the State of Florida.
Harvesting, boating, and diving carry real risk. Shellmark is not a safety device; use it at your own risk.
Brainstorm Innovative Technologies, LLC
12409 Curley St., Suite 103, San Antonio, FL 33576
support@brainstorminnovative.com
Season, zone, and limit checks for Florida shellfish. Verify current FWC rules.
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What’s new
First release. Florida shellfish seasons, zone checks, bag and vessel limits, a go-out conditions read, and a private harvest log that stays on your phone. Verify current FWC rules.
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BRAINSTORM INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
admin@brainstorminnovative.com
27160 Hickory Hill Rd
Brooksville, FL 34602-8255
United States
+1 813-530-6559