Thousands of fish dead in Florida Bay

[jsuber]

Florida wildlife officials say thousands of fish that turned up dead this week in Florida Bay may be victims of a marine version of heat stroke.

Everglades National Park chief of biological resources Dave Hallac says the number of dead fish was unusually large. Redfish, snook and other species were among the dead animals.

The bay is a delicate ecosystem with vast flats only a few feet deep. As a result, water conditions can change rapidly with the weather - heat raising the water's salt content and killing sea grass, affecting other life.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida ... 54116.html

[WaltDawg]

Damn, I've heard of a snook kill because of a freeze, but I've never heard of this.

[SHOWBOAT]

that's pretty crazy

[WolfeMan]

Global warming!

[RHTFISH]

aka oxygen inversion...very sad whenever or wherever it occurs!

[skeeter-eater]

guess i just missed it....I made trip down to flamingo on 4th of july weekend.
I doesn't surprise me though because it was ungodly hot and still.....no wind.....and the fishin wasn't even that good....which is surprising because i grew up fishin down there and normally when its hot and still like it was you'll see tails by the dozens....we saw 1 the whole day.

[RiverRunner]

This is wierd that this came up. Earlier this week a friend of mine gave me a book to read and told me to be ready to read the whole thing through and not set it down. Well, I did and it was a great book, read it in one day. Totch - A Life in the Everglades

http://www.amazon.com/Totch-Everglades- ... 0813012279

If any of you get a chance to pick a copy up, then do it. It's about "Totch" growing up through 1920-30's up through his adult life in the Everglades, Flamingo and Ten Thousand Islands.