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Piney Point pollution spreading, affecting dolphins
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Piney Point pollution spreading, affecting dolphins

May 17, 2021 – Cindy Lane
May 3, 2021
By Rusty Chinnis

Reel Time: Angler’s action guide

I’ve written a lot lately about the critical issues facing our local waters and the need for anglers (everyone really) to get involved in efforts to protect them. What does it mean to get involved? H…
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April 30, 2021
By Cindy Lane
Where's Bortie?

Where’s Bortie?

Loggerhead sea turtle Bortie is headed away from Anna Maria Island Gulf waters, where she was spotted on April 17. Turtle watchers thought she might nest again on AMI – she was satellite-tagged after…
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April 26, 2021
By Cindy Lane
Piney Point wastewater spreading

Piney Point wastewater spreading

UPDATED April 26, 2021 at 3:52 p.m. – PALMETTO – About half the wastewater in a leaking retention pond built into a gyp stack at the closed Piney Point phosphate plant has been pumped into Tampa Bay…
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April 26, 2021
By Rusty Chinnis
Reel Time: Get ready and get involved

Reel Time: Get ready and get involved

Tarpon were the sirens that lured the first tourists to Florida, and their mystique is still in full sway today. While fly fishing for tarpon holds a mystique of its own, the vast majority of angl…
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April 25, 2021
By Cindy Lane

Red tide detected in Manatee County

ANNA MARIA ISLAND – Red tide has been detected in Manatee County in low concentrations for the first time since the Piney Point disaster earlier this month. Red tide-related respiratory irritation…
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April 19, 2021
By Rusty Chinnis
Reel Time: Tarpon time

Reel Time: Tarpon time

Tarpon season is one of the most anticipated times of the year on local waters. While I’ve encountered tarpon occasionally most every month of the year, April through July is the time eager anglers t…
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April 19, 2021
By Cindy Lane
Turtle trackers predict Bortie’s return

Turtle trackers predict Bortie’s return

ANNA MARIA ISLAND – Just in time for the May 1 start of sea turtle nesting season off AMI, Bortie may be coming home to nest. The female loggerhead sea turtle was satellite-tagged and released fro…
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April 12, 2021
By Rusty Chinnis
Reel Time: An unfolding tragedy

Reel Time: An unfolding tragedy

Rounding a mangrove corner into Clam Bar Bay on the edges of Tampa Bay, I had the sensation of a place remembered. I had first visited Moses Hole on a kayak outing in 2013. But this time, somethin…
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April 12, 2021
By Jason Schaffer
Newly constructed Coquina Beach lifeguard tower #9

New Coquina Beach lifeguard towers offer high tech public safety solutions

COQUINA BEACH – If you head to Coquina Beach in Bradenton Beach, you may be surprised to find something entirely different than the lifeguard towers you’re used to seeing on American beaches. For de…
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April 5, 2021
By Cindy Lane
Coast Lines: First, do no harm

Coast Lines: First, do no harm

A recent visit to the Mulberry Phosphate Museum was fascinating, with its finds of prehistoric giant ground sloths, mammoths, sharks, manatees and crocodiles, and even a 3000-year-old dugout canoe, a…
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