Photo: Teresa Gibson and Justin Rieger holding a spotted seatrout Prioritize the Food Web and Menhaden Will Recover Coast-Wide While we drift-fished for spotted seatrout, the sound came from astern, not unlike the tearing of newsprint. I cocked my head in time to watch hundreds of beefy bunker (Atlantic menhaden) arch from the glassy surface […]
15th CERP Anniversary Sees Another Everglades Estuary Dying Twenty-plus years ago, while guiding on Florida Bay in Everglades National Park, I volunteered to take water samples for The Nature Conservancy. Guides like me were desperate to help any way we could. The Bay was in the midst of a fish-killing algae bloom that was fueled […]
It has been quite some time since I went fishing just to catch fish. Or, judged the quality of a fishing day by the number of fish in the box. Good thing, considering the lackluster days I’m tending to have on the famed, yet defamed, Indian River Lagoon (IRL). Black, polluted discharge from nearby canals […]
