Since the pandemic oyster farmers have been hit hard. With restaurants that were their customers closing, their sales were way down and the oysters they were holding grew beyond the half-shell market. But growers in seven states now have a market for their overgrown oysters. The Nature Conservancy in partnership with The Pew Charitable Trusts [...]
As you leaned in the lead article in last month’s E-newsletter, Sarasota Bay is ailing from excess nutrients from a variety of urban runoff sources. So much so, that the Department of Environmental Protection is expected to declare the Bay a “Nutrient Impaired” water body in 2020. This is a major threat to our tourism-based [...]
The Shoreline Shindig hosted by START and Realize Bradenton on Saturday, October 13th along the Riverwalk in Bradenton was a very enjoyable event attracting over 300 people like the three well-known visitors shown above. Everyone gathered to celebrate the importance of our shoreline and waterways and hear original acoustic music from local band Passerine. They [...]
