Originally published on Fox4 by Domingo Murray on August 13, 2024
“We’ve had dead fish at the shoreline, many times, not a whole lot… about a dozen times in 30 years,” he said.
Tuesday morning Talbott called FOX4 about the issue, so we reached out to Codty Pierce with Calusa Waterkeeper for answers.
“As we are starting to experience higher air and water temperatures, and then we talk about a major rain event like Hurricane Debby that happened last week, there was an immense amount of nutrients in storm water runoff that ends up inside of the estuary,” Pierce said.
These nutrients lead to more bacteria. That bacteria then decomposes… and what comes next, stinks.
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