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 |
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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Here They Come Again
(May 2008) Shooting the messenger is an old sport. But I hope you’ll hold your fire as I bring you a fresh warning that the No-Fishing Gang is coming your way with more sneak attacks.
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The Swedes Are Coming (or should be)
(April 2008) There’s one fact that our federal fisheries managers really don’t want to talk about, or even acknowledge. It would upset their fish sales cart. The long-ignored fact is that non-commercial fishing is actually far, far more valuable to society than is commercial fishing. ... [+] Read More |
The Wrong Special People
(March 2008) Certain special people may exceed the bag limits. As long as they sell the fish, that is. That, in essence, is the fundamental premise of our federal saltwater fisheries management.
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Fifty-Year Losing Streak
(February 2008) Here’s fascinating news from the well-I’ll-be-danged department:
Top state and federal engineers agreed in a series of meetings that a major new south outlet from Lake Okeechobee must be constructed in order to save the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie estuaries.
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Privatizing Your Public Fish
(January 2008) It’s not quite as good as winning the Lotto, but grabbing hold of an ITQ is a pretty nifty alternative. You get a percentage of the public’s fish, and turn those rascals into your own private property. Year after year.
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