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Sikes has an article in the paper today about the brown tide. It includes a sidebar about how to help. From the sidebar: "Funding for water testing has been secured through 2014, but plans are to continue the study for two years beyond that at an annual cost of $32,000. All contributions go toward equipment, lab analysis, and lab supplies. Most water sampling is conducted by volunteers. So far, funding has come from the Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries Program, the Kleburg County Commissioners Court, the Saltwater- fisheries Enhancement Association and the Coastal Conservation Association-Texas."

"To donate, contact Jace Tunnell at 885-6245 or jtunnell@cbbep.org. "

For all of us who have been bemoaning the results of the brown tide--poor fishing,having to run along way to find clearer water, clooged/burned up engines, etc., here is a chance for all of us to "put our money where our mouth is." Maybe, just maybe, the scientists will be able to find a cause and then suggest some solutions.

Chef Lefty · Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 9:21 am Post subject:

If these clowns can give me the 32K, I will tell them to cut a pass or two out to the Gulf. Very Happy

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gotmullet? · Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 10:22 am Post subject:

fishinglady · Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 10:33 am Post subject:

Cutting one or more passes to the Gulf might help....but I believe that there are quite a few board members who might hunt you down for that....They then wouldn't be able to drive all the way down the beach to the Port Mansfield jetties. Plus, the cuts would allow the red tide greater entrance to the Laguna.

lloydrage · Pony Mullet Joined: 11 Jun 2013 Posts: 50

topdog15 · Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 12:10 pm Post subject:

Baffin Bay and the ULM evolved as hypersaline lagoons due to a natural lack of passes. Why do you think we should put a pass where nature never intended one? There are several passes that open naturally during storm events but then close on their own. Cutting passes is not the answer.

As for allowing red tide into the laguna, that same hypersalinity is what keeps it out, not a lack of circulation due to a shortage of passes. Ever noticed how it will be all over CC Bay but not travel too far past the JFK causeway? That's b/c it cannot survive in salinities too far above seawater.
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Rebecca of Sunnybrookfarm · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 01 May 2008 Posts: 3974

kobersteller · Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 1:08 pm Post subject:

I hate to say it, but what we really need is a hurricane. Haven't had one in quite some time and that, coupled with years of drought is wreaking havoc on the laguna.
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fishinglady · Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 1:21 pm Post subject:

I would have been there at the meeting if I had known about it. The only meeting I heard about was being held in Kingsville. Maybe someone on here who knows about the meeting schedules could post it up for everyone to see.

Rebecca of Sunnybrookfarm · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 01 May 2008 Posts: 3974

David Rowsey · Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 1:39 pm Post subject: BT Studies

I did a day of volunteering today as captain to transport the scientist to collect their data at certain lat/long. Interesting process, and much more than putting water in a bottle. We covered the east side of Baffin, while another team covered the west side.

6 news went out with the west enders, and there will be coverage at 6:00 this evening for those interested.

Since the BB has moved into the backyard, we did an extra sampling near the intake to the CPL.

DR

speckled.trout · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 30 Aug 2012 Posts: 1190

kobersteller · Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 1:42 pm Post subject:

Couldn't they bury some pipelines under the island and into the laguna? The pipeline wouldn't have to go out more than 3 or 400 yards into the gulf and then you would get some fresher water exchanging in and out with the tides.
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Granite Guy · Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 2:06 pm Post subject: BROWN TIDE

Get use to it back in the mid and late eighty's was for years around Baffin and from Sunday house to where the yellow cabins are now.

Nothing can be done, but a hurricane to dump tons of rain to add fresh water and flush out.

Thowing money at is just keeps those folks with a job. It's like trying to quell a tornado /// Wont happen, its nature tryong to cut back on fishing tournaments !!
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speckled.trout · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 30 Aug 2012 Posts: 1190

It's going to take a TS or Hurricane. If the powers that are making the decisions and cared about the water quality in the Laguna they would have changed the way the causeway was rebuilt and gave the water in Corpus Christi Bay the chance to flow into the Upper Laguna.
It's going to take time or a storm, what the heck good are the studies other than to keep some biologist employed?

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