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 [...]
For 35 years scientists have monitored the size of the Gulf of Mexico dead zone or hypoxic zone, which forms every spring. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists are forecasting this summer’s hypoxic area or “dead zone” to be approximately 6,700 square miles, larger than the long-term average measured size of 5,387 square miles [...]
