Beginning today, it’s illegal.The Apalachicola Bay ecosystem, considered quintessential Florida, is in ruin. Only the name and hometown will be published. “If this doesn’t happen now it won’t exist.”Ackerman, from the Riverkeeper organization, said she will know the surest sign that the estuary is back: if she drives over the bridge to Apalachicola and sees the water full of oyster boats.“That’s the indicator of a healthy bay, that a sustainable harvest is out there,” she said.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation will shut down wild oyster harvesting for as long as five years.
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Someone Shannon Hartsfield, 51, a fisherman who chairs a group called the Seafood Management Assistance Resource & Recovery Team, said those who used to oyster have moved on to jobs in construction, tourism or different types of fishing.
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He has farmed oysters on a local lease himself, but that is not the preferred fallback for everyone in the fishery.“It’s so expensive to get into it, and then you’re two years down the road before you have any return,” Hartsfield said.Supporters of the closure say they hope jobs come back, but their top concern is the bay itself.
At one point, they would have had 25 boats and 50 men pulling hundreds of bushels a day.Many oystermen are not so upset about the closure now as they are that it did not happen sooner. The Apalachicola Times One of two letters to the editor this week.
Ward, 32, comes from a family of oystermen and said only three to five people on the bay still consistently turn to “tonging” anymore anyway.“This should have happened years ago,” he said. That mix afforded a divine chemistry.The balance fell out of line when dry conditions cut river flows, leaving the bay too salty. In 2012, data from the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission show, Franklin County delivered more than 3 million pounds of oysters, worth about $9 million.
The ecosystem could not handle old harvest levels, and some boats drew more than the bay could support. Captains said the whole situation was made worse by farmers in Georgia taking more than their fair share of freshwater from the rivers supplying the estuary. Each July, we have two budget workshops that set the maximum millage rate to be finalized at a future budget adoption hearing. The bay succeeded because of a special balance between freshwater from the Apalachicola River and saltwater passing through St. George and St. Vincent sounds. Letters are subject to editing. People in Franklin County have opposed how the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers manages dams, and Florida officials sued Georgia in a case that will fall to the U.S. Supreme Court.Steve Rash, at the distributor Water Street Seafood, said he quit buying local wild oysters a few years ago and has been pushing for a suspension of the harvest.“We were getting so few oysters in that it wasn’t worth paying a crew to sit around waiting,” he said.
Since then, 130,000 people have watched a veteran fishing guide pluck piles of oysters from the bay, raking the floor with a long set of wooden and metal tongs.That’s how generations of Franklin County residents made a living.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation will shut down wild oyster harvesting for as long as five years. “Particularly for Franklin County, the economy and the ecology are super closely connected.”For copyright information, check with the distributor of this item, Tampa Bay Times (St. Petersburg, Fla.).We're always interested in hearing about news in our community. Archaeologists have found ancient trash piles from indigenous communities, full of oyster shells and dating back 4,500 years, said Nancy White, a professor at the University of South Florida.“If I don’t make any money off the Apalachicola Bay oysters anymore that’s fine,” said Rash, the distributor.
“It’s been bad for a while.”Oysters are a keystone species, filtering water and building out reefs that reduce erosion while supporting a vibrant habitat for sea trout, red drum, crabs and an abundance of other marine life.
Original content available for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons license, except where noted. The bay succeeded because of a special balance between freshwater from the Apalachicola River and saltwater passing through St. George and St. Vincent sounds.
The Commissioners hope that the pause and $20 million in restoration and monitoring, will restore a portion of the oyster fishery.APALACHICOLA, Fla. (AP) — The tourism video opens with a scene of boats, birds and blue water, lit by a postcard dawn.“If you’re looking to do the real Florida, look no further,” a deep-voiced narrator says. At its peak, according to the state, oystering in Apalachicola Bay supported approximately 2,500 jobs.At local markets, like that of Ward’s family, oysters now come from Texas and Louisiana.
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