Last week the Bonefish and Tarpon Trust announced their Fix Our Water initiative, a grassroots effort to draw the attention of anglers, the fishing industry and the public at large to the slow-motion disaster that is evolving in South Florida.
In a nutshell, many billions of gallons of polluted freshwater are being discharged every day from Lake Okeechobee into the Caloosahatchee River and the St. Lucie River and Estuary. These areas are unfishable. Algal blooms are widespread.
Making matters worse, so little freshwater is reaching Florida Bay that the waters of Florida Bay are hypersaline, resulting in a large-scale die-off of seagrass, an extensive algae bloom, and numerous fish kills.
BTT has posted a position statement here that outlines the key issues and corresponding action points in just four pages.
Well worth a read today; you’ll want to fish down there someday…
