
Save the trust funds. If you care about the environment, fight back, contact state legislators.
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Subsurface Inlets Can Improve the Balance of Salinity in Florida Bays, Estuaries
Within a few minutes of meeting Bruce French at a Florida Sportsman Fishing Show, he had pulled out a pad and started sketching a design of his idea for subsurface inlets. Frankly, I wasn't sure what to think. Surely this was a screwball idea-drill a 4-foot diameter pipe beneath a barrier island so you can pump sea water directly into an estuary.
But the more we talked, the more it made sense. And unless some miracle of stormwater management occurs in Florida over the next few years, his idea may turn out to be our best hope for restoring and maintaining some of Florida's most threatened estuaries. ... [+] Read More |
Time To Clean Up Cruise Ship Polution
Floridians are familiar with the staggering sight of cruise liners near port, so huge they eclipse the sky on their passage to and from exotic, distant places. But it's likely that few of us know the equally staggering amounts of waste those ships generate. ... [+] Read More |
Proposing a Unique New Reserve
(February 2009) This new Reserve could transform the immense property (the size of many state parks combined) into a natural wonderland, while at the same time provide vitally needed basic benefits of the Missing Link flowway. ... [+] Read More |
Misplacing the Blame
(January 2009) Dang, I sat down to write a blue skies and happiness column, and along comes a fancy, expensive new study called “Oceans of Abundance.” There went my attempted good humor. ... [+] Read More |
A Most Welcome Order
(December 2008) It may seem too good to be true, and I realize that such seems often turn out to be just that, not true, but a new Presidential executive order may well stop more No Fishing Zones from being imposed. ... [+] Read More |
Have a Grouperless New Year’s
(November 2008) Don’t plan on taking home a single east coast grouper on New Year’s Day. For the first time, grouper fishing will be banned on Atlantic waters, for at least four months starting Jan. 1.
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Two Huge Issues: Sweet Sugar and Sour Snapper
(August 2008) 1. Governor Charlie Crist announced out of the blue that the state has quietly cut a deal to buy roughly half of Big Sugar. 2. Also stunning, but in a very negative way, are plans by federal fisheries managers to impose ill-advised closures on red snapper and grouper. ... [+] Read More |
Pleeeeze...Not Gill Nets!
(June 2008) Didn't we get rid of those nasty things? We did. But, as we warn in a conservation segment on our Florida Sportsman TV show, there's a stealthy move afoot to bring back the deadly entangling gear.
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