Cold-killed fish washing up on shores in Bay area
The cold weather that was threatening strawberries and oranges (and probably a few other types of produce) also lowered water temperatures down to the Everglades below survival levels. As if Florida wildlife needed something else to worry about. Anyway, the dead fish are getting eaten by some very stuffed seabirds.
"Residents there [apartments near the shore of Tampa Bay] filled two 5-gallon buckets with fish, including many mangrove snappers that washed ashore, some still barely alive, Bedore said. Other victims included a large number of catfish and some snook.
On the adjacent beach behind the former Georgetown Apartments, "There must have been thousands of terns, seagulls, some pelicans; they must have been having a smorgasbord," Bedore said."
Snook fishing (except for catch-and-release) is now banned until September.
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