Alligator Creek RED TIDE, progress report Dec 13th
horseradish
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Rotten, smelly mullet all up and down Alligator Creek. Only interesting observation of note is the hundreds, upon hundreds of vultures roosting both sides of the creek.
To complicate matters, full scale channel dredging is ongoing and the floating silt barriers are preventing the dead fish from washing out of the creek into the harbor and oblivion!
Right now the Dec/Jan Alligator Creek trout bash looks like a non-happening!
To complicate matters, full scale channel dredging is ongoing and the floating silt barriers are preventing the dead fish from washing out of the creek into the harbor and oblivion!
Right now the Dec/Jan Alligator Creek trout bash looks like a non-happening!
A SeaStrike 180 with 115 Yam , A Calm Wife and a Spunky Cairn Terrier. IT'S ALL GOOD!
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More likely male mullet discarded by net fishermen, they only keep the females for their roe.
Jim
West,
I've been around for a while and I've never seen red tide effects as far up in the Harbor as Alligator Creek.
Jim
I can assure you Jim that there was red tide in Alligator Creek and PGI up till about a week ago. I too have been around here for a while and enjoyed growing up on the water here and have been lucky enough to spend most of my adult life thus far working on these waters. All you need to do is check the MyFWC website to access the red tide sampling surveys.
It's very unusual to find red tide that far up in the estuary.
Could it be that the lack of rain has raised the salinity???
Jim