START is launching a Special Sales Promotion on under dock mini reefs for waterside residents on the Sun Coast. The units fit under your dock and provide habitat for sea life that filter excess nutrients from the water and attract a wide variety of fish as shown in the above picture taken at the Mar Vista Dockside Restaurant on Longboat Key.
With the expansion of our public educational outreach program and our increasing number of in-water projects that START now administers, we have decided to add a new Program Manager position to our Executive Committee. As with all START officers, it is a volunteer position that would be ideal for a recently retired person who enjoys [...]
Entering our sixth year as a contributing partner to Sarasota Bay Watch’s successful native clam seeding program in Sarasota Bay, START is very pleased to relay Ernesto Lasso de la Vega’s report on the progress of the repopulation project so far this year. Members of the Sarasota Bay Watch visited clam farmer, Carter Davis’, leased [...]
Apalachicola Bay is located on the Florida Panhandle near the Big Bend. It is one of the country’s major estuaries. Historically, nearly 90% of Florida’s and 10% of the nation’s wild oysters came from Apalachicola Bay. In recent years it has had its oyster population drastically decline in what some have called a budding ecological [...]
Servings: 4 Total Time: 25 minutes Cooking Sequence Preheat grill; prepare salmon recipe through step 1 (5 minutes) Prepare rice recipe (10 minutes) Grill salmon and serve (10 minutes) Cooking Instructions Mustard and Brown Sugar Salmon Ingredients 4 salmon fillets, thawed and skin removed (about 1 1/2 lb) 1/2 cup light mayonnaise 1 tablespoon Italian [...]
Current Conditions The red tide organism, Karenia brevis, was observed in one Southwest Florida sample over the past week. In Southwest Florida over the past week, K. brevis was present at low concentrations in one Sarasota County sample. In Northwest Florida over the past week, K. brevis was not observed. Along the Florida East Coast [...]
