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Good news: Least terns nesting on AMI
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Good news: Least terns nesting on AMI

Jun 5, 2021 – Cindy Lane
May 17, 2021
By Rusty Chinnis
Reel Time: Make the wind your friend

Reel Time: Make the wind your friend

Whether stalking bonefish in the Bahamas, poling a flat in Florida for tailing redfish, wading into the Northeast surf for stripers, or casting for sea-run rainbows on the West Coast, anglers spend t…
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May 17, 2021
By Cindy Lane
Piney Point pollution spreading, affecting dolphins

Piney Point pollution spreading, affecting dolphins

TAMPA BAY – The Sarasota Dolphin Research Program at Mote Marine is monitoring the dolphin community near Port Manatee for impacts from the April discharge of 215 million gallons of polluted water fr…
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May 10, 2021
By Rusty Chinnis

Reel Time: Online angling

It might seem like the digital world has been around forever but it wasn’t that long ago that information about fishing was only available in books and magazines, on fishing shows, or by going fishin…
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May 9, 2021
By Cindy Lane
Lyngbya bloom clogging bays, ICW

Blue-green algae bloom clogging bays, ICW

Nutrients and warming temperatures are feeding a bloom of blue-green algae called Lyngbya in area waters, according to scientists with Manatee County. As has been the case over the last two years…
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May 9, 2021
By Jason Schaffer
Wild iguanas are calling Anna Maria home

Wild iguanas are calling Anna Maria Island home

ANNA MARIA ISLAND – They’re not escaped pets, they are wild iguanas, and they are showing up more often on the Island. And if the Island’s lizards seem a bit larger than they used to, that’s becau…
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May 8, 2021
By Jason Schaffer
Lovebugs are back for spring mating season

They’re called lovebugs, but nobody seems to love them

ANNA MARIA – Car washes love them; most everyone else finds them to be an incredible nuisance. Twice a year, Anna Maria Island is invaded by a tiny flying pest known to science as Plecia nearctica…
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 9, 2025
11:45 am

The Off-Stage Ladies of the Island Players, April luncheon meeting