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Something like that happened up here in Maine on the coast in late 90s and come to find out the government had tested some underwater equipment for early warning of long range ships and missiles. They quietly shut down the program and released a press release saying that it was "malfunctioning communications equipment." They scrubbed all info about it from the news, but ask anyone up here and they all remember it.
oooh. yes . I'm also wondering about ssri's and other mood altering human drugs. or the moon and the eclipse.
@@TheAmerz1 I’m thinking it’s somehow magnetic related, especially if it’s happening more at night. The moon has a massive magnetic effect.
Navy sonar is a big problem, at least part of the problem.
I thought this sounded familiar, I forgot about that . But it fits in with my thinking it mite have something to do with China putting military basses in Cuba. We may be putting out sonar bougies or something, 😂🤣 who knows ?
Put some mics in the water and listen for high pitch sonar....
i dont know about the keys but here in south side saint petersburg there is a strong low vibrating hum coming from under the water so strong it vibrates my brain, feel it in my chest ever since before the beginning of the year
In Ukraine when Russia was using its navy heavy for the war they were pumping sonar. Tons of fish and wildlife were washing up on shore. Entire groups of dolphins too.
Whirling disease I wrote it when it first came out. My fish had it when we imported from fla. They said they couldnt detect it due to the levals in fish. . Whirling disease is a condition affecting trout and salmon and other fish caused by a microscopic parasite known as Myxobolus cerebralis. The parasite attacks the cartilage tissue of a fish's head and spine. If sufficiently infected, young fish may develop symptoms such as whirling behavior, a black tail or even death.
Happens every spring in Canada.
I am a Professional Civil Engineer and I do a ton of work with lakes and their issues. We start with everything you can think of over the last 9 months or so which occurred near this area even if u r not sure list it. Then you take that list along with the list of fish and their symptoms and look for potential causes. Start with the list of things which occurred in south Florida over the last 9 months.
1. Extremely hot summer. 2. Coral bleached and died. 3. Release of sewer and nutrients into water. 4. Large lake water release and a very wet year. 5. Murky color change you mentioned. 6. Very large (record sized?) floating matts of Sargassum this summer. 7. Strange foam on water surface over summer. 8. Strange greenish water tint in July. 9. Leaking Power Plant in Homestead, FL. 10. US Submarine with deployed in Gulf of Mexico due to Haitian issues. (Sonar Usage). 10. Installation of 5G networks. 11. Prion Disease in fish is real, but is not on this list since there is no evidence yet. (The only at night issue may eliminate this as a potential?). 12. Ciguatoxins (CTXs) being tested for?? 13. Excessive use of chemicals to kill weeds and bugs and various fertilizers used in yards, big sugar, golf, etc. has leached into water. 14. New Sewer Treatment Plant in operation near ground zero had large untreated release of raw sewage. 15. Reports it has happened before in the past and is actually occurring in other areas hundreds of miles from ground zero. Similar to Whirling Disease and Jubilee in other areas. 16. dinoflagellate-induced neurotoxicity (Testing being done?). 17. Pole shift causing issues? 18. Overdevelopment 19. Caused by Oil spills in gulf in the past and what chemicals they used? 20. Newly introduced jellyfish. 21. The problem is in the ground below the water. It has what is causing this and the sediment should be tested. 22. All cause by a low oxygen at night phenomenon similar to Jubilee. Most of the fish are bottom dwellers. ::::: Lots of potentials listed. Now many can be removed since there are specifics which eliminate them. These Specifics are:
A. Only happening at night.
B. It started in a small area between Big Pine and Cudjoe Keys.
C. Not all fish are being affected. List of fish includes (Sawfish, Stingray, Goliath Grouper, Tarpon, pinfish, snook, ??)
D. Is appears to be happening only in the shallow waters (Depth range 0'-??)
E. It started in the winter, so it being water temperature may not make sense?
F. They claim they are running tests on the fish and water and have found no causes yet?"There was no evidence of a red tide in the Keys, nor were there low oxygen levels, high temperatures, or parasites on the dead fish", according to Kelly Richmond of the fish and wildlife commission
G.
solve what? humans are killing the planet slowly
Its not turtle grass, it is sargassum, they are different things. Large floating mats of sargassum arent anything new, its common to big pine at least.
Didn't we have a weird foam on the surface of the water in the keys last summer? ruclips.net/video/6wZRVrV3p8g/видео.html
I am a Christian that has studied a lot more then the Bible. Red tide is real and man has made it happen. Cleaning it up is almost a joke it would take a meticulous something to do it. Big money want let you stop there cash cow. Is not hard to see what’s going on. Thanks for trying 😊
2. Coral is rebounding as Dibs has shown. 4. Happens every year, I wouldn't even call this most recent discharge "large." 6. Again, happens every year. Grasses, like them or not, are a healthy sign. Not the opposite.
Deer around us in the heartland have been getting CWD, chronic waste disease , where it eats their brains and they will walk in circles until they die. I hope this isn’t a similar fish disease.
It's because they throw it out. Pellets with that in it, so the animals will eat it. And they're claiming it's Rabies vaccine.
That’s a prion protein and it can stay in the soil up to 25 years and infect animals on food that grows in that contaminated soil supposedly
Wow, I really hope it isn't a new type of prion floating around.
Great point here. This was my thought exactly. I am Hunter and Woodsman as well and watching the behavior of these fish made me think of a deer’s behavior when CWD has been contracted.
Dogs do the same thing when they are dying. My dog walked in circles that last few days before her death.
Hi. Shorelinefisherman here. Like a lot of others are suggesting, it is probably the Lake O dumps. Been fishing the Indian river lagoon for over a decade, and the pollution has killed all the seagrass, and thus, healthy fish populations
Nuthin to do with record water temps last summer? Lake O been dumping a long time.
Did he say ,that lake O is being drained on both sides? Is that a new method versus it being dumped in the gulf?😮
@rusedorange yes too long that's been a issue. Yet now is when the fish are in a different turmoil. Also the fact that it's not affecting the Gulf.
@@rusedorangebeen dumping for a long time and the results keep getting worse every year. There is no recovery
They need to make more inlets
The houses in the keys all have septic tanks leeching into water, Agriculture area and Lake Okeechobee draining into Everglades.
Hey Aaron - I live on big pine. This week I was poking around near Johnson key and ran into dark brown kind of thick stinky water between Johnson key and Rocky channel. Never seen water like that. I have NOT seen spinning fish, but wanted to report this mess.
Sounds to me like the 2017 sewer system project called injection wells whereby they pump sewage underneath the islands is the culprit. The government claims the sewage is contained underneath a layer of rock however it's clear that it's not contained. I watched a news video from several years ago, Marathon I believe - expert's weighed in and there was gray, stinky sewage water in the inshore mangroves. Unfortunately I couldn't find the video again, probably taken down!!!!
Saw this today at Bahia Honda and it left a brown muck on my skin almost like slimey sticky oil
hate to hear it, there are alot of theories as to what its from. Wish I could say for sure.
@@KeyWestWaterman Similar thing has been happening here in Ontario Canada with fish dying in large numbers at specific places and one resident caught GOVERNMENT officials poisoning the water and when confronted they all left and threatened the resident with arrest. Things are happening. Fish, farm, hunt, garden, its all under attack. They want us to rely on them 100% for "safety". Be careful.
@@stephen29501maybe get a sample of this water and take to an university to study it.
So coincidental all started weeks after the massive lake O releases started.
Hymmmmmmmmmmmmmm😮😮
Pine island sound just got a big dose too.
This started long before the most recent release
The water would be diluted by the time it reached Key West and that’s near ground zero I think they said
Yup big sugar
Thank you for sharing your perspective and giving us a glimpse. Your personal experience and approach to sharing information is appreciated.
Definitely witnessed this during the day on Smathers Beach The first week of March. A sawfish was so disoriented at the shore... about 10 minutes of it flopping around. We thought it was beached initially
Guys, this guy (dibs) is a keeper let’s get him to 500k subscribers.
Would love to see what he can do with more resources. Having met him personally I can testify that this is how he is, he really does care about what’s going on with the fish. Aaron thank you for what you do.
He will get there no question.
Really appreciate the kind words 🙏🏻
I think is all that sewer treated sewer water pump into the ground and surfacing in the reefs.
My brother, you should really consider what you comment in public because this really is some top tier glazing. My god. "dibs is a keeper". really? He's a fisherman that gets his hands bloody for a living, im sure he is creeped out by your meat riding. Dial it down a notch sparky and try something like "awesome vid" instead of pledging your soul to dibs like hes some kinda supreme leader to you. if you have a girlfriend and she sees this comment she will surely think less of you. other than that, interesting vid dibs.
@@Javibustamante160it ain’t that deep u seem hurt
Just want to say I am floored that you are still anwering comments at 173k subscibers. I know its nearly impossible to do but you still do what you can to connect with us. Here since 17k. Thank you Aaron.
I am trying my best! its alot some days, but I get to what I can. What a road it has been. Remember 17k like it was yesterday! haha
@@KeyWestWaterman So do I! Glad you're getting some comp for all the hard work you've invested and still do.
Answering the first 10 comments isn't too hard. It gives the majority the illusion that interest is shown.
That sucks bro! Stay after it please bra! TY !
@@evanroberts2771 you must be a miserable person
Thank you for sharing this - as a former Key West resident, this has been really alarming, I sincerely hope this gets resolved soon!
Hope it sheds some light and helps with the situation
Thank you so much for covering this. You're definitely one of the good ones. Breaks my heart seeing this happen to my favorite place. Hope it stops or we find answers soon. Excited to come down for mini season
Thank you for bringing awareness to this Aaron! Let’s hope this is fixable and can be stopped quickly. God bless!
Thank you for doing a video on this. It needs to get as much attention as possible
I recently stumbled across your videos through the algorithm. Your content is so calming and informative; how respectful and careful you are of the life around you is a breath of fresh air to see and reminds me of native practices when harvesting from nature. Ive kept them on in the background for several nights now and my animals love watching with me. Im a scientist with a bio background and an outdoorsman but i have very little experience fishing on my own. Your videos have inspired me to change that this season. Thank you for what you do and please dont change, you're a gem in the hunting world.
Great job man! Thank you for spreading awareness on this and the beautiful videos!
Thank you for this update. Cheers from Wisconsin.
Thanks for sharing the truth. Prayers for y'all's clean waters. Respect
Thank you for this informative episode. You are a legitimate source and a legit “MAN”. Much appreciated.
Thank you for covering this.
Thanks you for checking out the situation
Thanks, Aaron! Had no idea this was happening. Will spread the word.
So glad you addressed this issue. I was hoping you would. Keep us updated what you see and hear. Thanks
No I’m not here for Trump /Fox propaganda. I’m here for the rescues and the animals
Thanks . I had no idea . I appreciated all the time and information
Really cool and informative video Aaron. I really like your approach to this issue along with you sharing your first hand experience with the spinning fish
The main thing that comes to mind is this fertilizer spill we recently had in Tampa bay. I doubt it had any effect on the keys but it created a bloom of algae in the bay and kinda threw off the natural cycle of the seasonal cycles. Wonder if something similar happened down there. We did have a large amount of fish die and act strange. Like that. But it was no mystery They tested water and obviously could see the issue. But I wonder.
I’m in Weeki wachee. Hernando county fl. Always out on the flats. And I can appreciate the concern. If this was happening in my area. I would want answers. Love the videos. Spent about a year of my life in marathon county love the fishery there. New subscriber. I’ll be watching brother.
Thanks for your perspective. Looking for facts about anything in this crazy world is a challenge.
I appreciate hearing your thoughts on this. I was kind of hoping you would give it a shout. Kudos and thanks!
Thanks so much for following up this issue Capt. Dibs.
Your videos are phenomenal and much appreciated.
A couple days ago one of my neighbors spotted an approx 50lb Goliath up against mangroves at Eagle Pass near Key Largo.
As you mentioned, how about sharks? Manatees? Hoping all stabilizes real soon. It was great to see all those rays doing well. Thanks again, looking forward to your next episode
There was a sawfish in the Boynton inlet acting wierd swimming on the surface waving the saw out of the water recently
Good one, crazy times….I would bet the Okeechobee water releases are having an impact. Thank you, Andrew
Who's Andrew?
But the Lake O discharges go nowhere near the Keys? The discharges also happen every year, whereas this doesn't? The constant fear mongering over the discharges, even though they are bad, is ridiculous. Can't blame everything that happens on the freaking discharges lol.
@chris6054 the discharge’s absolutely make it to the keys. We were fishing out of ponce inlet (central Florida, east coast) and we found a commercially licensed lifejacket off of a work boat from Louisiana…. The ocean currents can move anything very long distances… don’t be so sure on things you don’t know. Stay opened minded, not that the discharges are the cause because you would think if that’s the case this behavior would be focused and starting where they are happening but you can’t discount anything without knowing 100%
@@Skibbidyboobophurricane Andrew.
@@chris6054 Don't know much about the discharges, but if it gets into the Gulf stream it could definitely affect the keys.
Thank for the update and your view. The news is not good so hopefully they’ll figure it out sooner than later.
Thanks Aaron , keep us posted.
Thanks for the thoughtful observation of a situation I was not aware of. It's obvious that you are one of us that care about what's going on in out coastal waters.
Thank you for helping raise awareness. A lot of theories out there, like: Okeechobee releases of pesticides/herbicides, Gulf rig oil wells, heat induced organisms, sewage, sonar, ....
One fact is the Atlantic Sea Surface temperature has consecutively set new high records every day for 350+ days. Imagine walking outside your house to record high temperatures every day for a year.
That's been Florida the last couple years it was cool this winter a lot of rain last winter we had one day below 90° in Southwest Florida
they changed the temperature taking placement from like 2' above ground to ground level then everyday became the hottest day ever. florida has been hot as fuck forever . I was there.
Let's not forget cruise ships ..... we know what they're capable of.
@@happyhealthyhumantrue
Yeah funny no one says anything about the Cruise industry. Have been on or in the water for over 50 years. Worked on the northern islands(Elliott, Adams, Sands) for years and dove all those waters down to the pennekamp line. Clarity used to be much better, used to be a lot of elkhorn, same out at Fort Jeff. All the oceans being used as a dump is having an effect. First time I ever heard of and was exposed to red tide was about 1980, was living on the beach about 5 miles north of sebastian inlet, not long after cruise ships started coming into Port Canaveral. The cruise industry is a horrible polluter of the oceans.
So happy to see when Dibs posts unexpectedly. Would love to get some more content pushed out event if it's just an extra episode or 2 a month.
Thank you for helping us understand whats going on, even somewhat, and searching to see if there are more afflicted fish. Many news articles have paywalled this topic and I couldnt see much about it until I tried to ask youtube.
When I was a kid, there was a season where horseshoe crabs washed up dead/dying. It seemed whatever impacted them was exclusive to the horseshoe crabs as no fish, no other shellfish or jellyfish were washed up in colonies like this. More recently, year over year, it seems to be colonies of the same species of jellyfish wash up (small, golf ball size) one year - then another year, softball size jellyfish with short legs - last year, stingrays were washing up in droves. What I noticed after spending several days on the coast is that it seems a connection to the appearance of late afternoon, big resort cruise ships (i.e. Carnival, etc.) rolling thru the distant horizon up the entire coastline and by early morning the next day, a steady foam overtakes the surf that doesn't break down - settles on the sand and leaves a residue in the sun. Among that foam and for the first half of the morning, we see whole colonies of the same species of sea life wash up, struggling to move/breathe rolling in just behind the foam surf in the early early mornings behind that event. it seems that whatever colonies are between the cruiseliners and the surf are impacted by whatever wastefluids these ships are heaving into the oceans they pass upon. Alternatively, when there are no cruiseliners on the horizon that pass that particular week, we don't see colonies of species washing up dead/dying for the miles of beachfront. I do believe there is a connection but I would not say that it is the entirety of the source of these problems for oceanlife in their wake.
it's called poop and pee mixed with soaps and chlorine
and God knows what else@@curiousbystander9193
ships will simply dump their waste, pollutes like crazy
Cruise ships are terrible. Gigantic wastes pumping pollutants into the air and the ocean.
i WONDER IF ANY OF THE DEER ON BIG PINE HAVE GOTTEN CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE CWD (sorry about the caps)
as that is also neurologic in nature and it has somehow spread to the fish in that area. Just trying to see if any commonalities exist. Thanks for using your platform Aaron to share awareness.
First guy I thought of when I saw the news. Thanks for the video. Hope everything turns out alright.
Wow, thank you! I used to live there, so beautiful - I just love all 4 seasons. Amazing video!
Big Pine is a nightmare at night! And Sawfish total is over 50 now.
What do you mean? What’s happening at night that is a nightmare?
@@cortjampole9391 spinning dying fish. But it seems to have stopped suddenly in the last week?
I saw a story about this last week and I knew you'd post about it. So thank you, I was waiting to hear your thoughts. I'm a native floridian that gets upset with these things. We have the most beautiful and one of a kind ecosystem on this planet. Much love ❤
Florida, especially south Florida, is heavily overdeveloped and overcrowded. In the U.S., money talks and the environment walks.
@@tonybarnes3858 What are you supposed to tell people. You can't go there anymore? Only the people that came for the last 40 years can stay, the rest GET!? The real problem is how we deal with waste and what we do with our public works infrastructure. People can live en mass with nature and not totally destroy it. I live next to, and "down wind" from the most croweded area of the nation. I remember growing up the coastal waters were disgusting. I'm mean polluted grossness. Now, the water is clear, animals are back, salmon are running again, the literal land fill 200' from the ocean is gone and replaced by tidal marsh, dunes and sawgrass etc etc It took about 40 years of regulatory change and mindset change, but it's possible. Florida can remain free, and take care of the environment at the same time.
The biggest concern I see for the state (I used to live there in the 90's) is fresh water. The water table is dropping bad. Letting lake O slowly flood the everglades like it was naturally probably wouldn't be a bad thing either.
Thanks. Great on location update
Thanks for the update. I’ve seen horrific fish kills and spinning behavior going back 10 years in the gulf. Strange sharks were always still around and healthy during them.
Nuclear subs sitting off the coast?
It sounds like lack of oxygen to the brain.
yes the fish are probably somewhat disoriented as well, but for the dying fish it seems like somewhat of a swim bladder issue and potentially bad water quality.
The Next dead fish you find, I’d clip a piece of his gill off and put it under a microscope and I’d check to see what color the fish’s gills are as well.
if they are white they can sometimes be burnt from to much oxygen or ammonia in the water and brown would likely mean bad water quality.
I’ve seen fresh water fish spinout like that du to high ammonia or nitrates. Which can easily be caused by low tides killing grass beds and fish getting trapped in those areas.
Somewhat like red tide where the algae is eating up more oxygen than it produces.
Fun to talk about but probably will never be proven🤷🏻♀️
Rays don't have swim bladders
Fun is not the word that comes to my mind..
I was wondering if you were going to talk about this. Very sad and scary times 😢 Love your channel.
The brown water was after the multiple water and sewer breaks we had. Big sewer pipe spill last summer on Ramrod.
Could the release of lake O be a factor
@@NFNADVENTURE It sure and hell is a problem in ST Inlet when they do their big releases. I use to live right across the street. Idiots running the releases. Build up the dam's.
@user-nj2vv2xm4j I know where I'm at (englewood) we see the effects of it
Maybe piss from people that had the experiment done on them! That thing is doing nasty things... some people dying live looking up and turning on them self and dropping dead... don't know! Let's all watch TV and learn what it's all about!🤷♂️🙏
Not sure ignorance is really more helpful than ignore-ance... but I'm "dam" sure neither's ideal. But learning one's environment (by exploiting it, for food OR bucks... though, of the two, DIRECTLY putting food on one's table IS more efficient, supply chain-wise) can actually help... cuz it can wise oneself up, if not on which way the wind blows (which'd be from "all over the place"), but, on which way the CURRENT flows... which happens to take the cyanobacteria water AWAY from the Keys on the St. Lucie side (and even, when the Loop Current is in effect, away from the Keys on the Caloosahatchee side, of the state). And, for all the problems it has given us on the St. Lucie inlet side... dying sawfish and spinning fish have not been amongst them (though red lesions on fish certainly HAVE). So, Stuart is not to blame for the condition of the Keys... but, Stuart's forefathers ARE to blame for Stuart's current plight, it turns out. Watch the documentary "America's Amazon" and you can see who it was that lobbied to have the lonnng St. Lucie canal, that connects the South Fork of the St. Lucie river to Lake O, built (at great federal expense, so as to "benefit" Stuart's economy, as a transportation hub). Sooo, given how that eventually spectacularly backfired (plus, I can't remember the last time I saw ANY sort of vessel using the canal when driving out to Indiantown)... maybe it is time for Stuart to take responsibility for saving its waters and marine industry, by getting behind a push to FILL THE CANAL (dammit)?... to restore some semblance of natural function, which once saw green water all the way to the Roosevelt Bridge (and hammerheads feeding on tarpon in that far). It's amazing how quickly some dam rivers on the west coast of the U.S. have come back towards health when UNdammed... so, no reason ours couldn't be restored to better health by shoving the fill back into that canal (dammit!)... if people see how that could be, ultimately, economical. Interesting point about the sharks not seeming to have been affected in the Keys, though... which may be because of their (semi-notoriously) powerful immune systems. Which yahoos don't seem to grasp makes them the "inverse farmers" of the sea... cuz it allows them to languorously cruise around until they spot a weakened or even diseased fish, and gulp it out of the gene pool, with impunity... which actually has an effect of increasing the viability (by culling the folly-prone members) of fish populations over time... which allows shark populations to slipstream along with those populations... whereas, sharks wouldn't have lasted long, if, like some human populations (particularly as regards the sea, including land agriculture's effect on it), shark evolution had ignored nature's first law of predation. Which is: It ain't efficient to be so efficient, at killing, as to have a quantity diminishing - instead of quantity increasing - effect on one's food supplies!
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No its not .
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Thanks for the update captain
Thanks for covering this
be interesting to find out if this is just effecting bottom feeders. sawtooth seem to be benthic, rays also benthic, some fish feed off the bottom, groupers stay near the bottom where they can hide. testing benthic sediments and not water might help?
Great Idea.
This is what I believe is happening. Spent all of February in the lower keys, last 10 days started to notice weird behavior. We pulled a pinfish trap off Cudjoe. The fish looked fine, but when the trap was pulled up and they were pressed by the mesh, they would get the spins when lowered back into the water. I think the baitfish behaving like this is causing predator species to gorge on them which is matriculating the toxin up the food chain and killing them. The spinning pinfish and mullet might as well be fishing lures.
Had a Ray swimming upside down up here in Summerland key
I recently left South Dade but over the last 2 years or so the development in south Dade, very south like Homestead and Florida City has increased exponentially.
Literally apartment complexes and 10+ houses per acer where there used to be fields and farms. Tens of thousands of new builds. This has to be related.
Aaron, thanks for sharing important information on what might be a crisis in the Keys fishery. I've checked "Captains for Clean Water" and University of Miami's Marine Science sites for updates on investigations but nothing concrete regarding the cause. Keep us posted on new developments.
sonic weapon testing?
Thank you Aaron, I try too keep up on what is going on down there.
Thanks for the info, I hope it gets figured out soon.
Thank you for keeping us informed , us in Port St. Joe/Mexico Beach .
I've been following this also.
This reminds me of "Mad Cow Disease" that UK went through in the 1980s and 1990's. I was stationed over in the UK and Cows and other animals, specifically rabbits, would start doing circles with their eyes bulging out of their heads until they died.
I do recall how hot the water was last summer. I bet that had something to do with this. Hoping it clears up and temps aren't so high this summer. Take care and stay safe Mr and Mrs Young !
Prions
@@racebannon7209yep, from the sewer?
@Steve-ul8qb Honestly I don't think prions vector off pollution but rather cannibalism. But perhaps they have mutated and breaking the brain blood barrier. Either way this is scary. We've got to save the seas. And it's not climate change. SMH
Prions in fish! That would be horrific.
I know nothing but I heard a rumor that they was spraying the roads to kill the weeds and caused this... I hope they get to the bottom of this. Thankyou
That’s just a lil bit of it.
if i had to guess it would be a combonation of lots of things but i would bet that was a factor
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Thanks for the update. My stingray go to is flats on south side of Sawyer Key. Saw three big rays there Monday afternoon and all were seemingly good to good to go. I've seen no spinning fish after dark under the dock light Oceanside Summerland Key so far.
Good job and good news. THanks for sharing.
Wondering if you would cover this. Saw a video on this the other day and thought of you!
leaking power plant imho.. i reshared to miami news ten and the video was removed within 12 hours by yt... 🤐🙏
@@dertythegrowera power plant is leaking
@@Foenttuudhf do you got an article or something or are they taking them down?
@@dertythegrower do you got an article or source or are they taking them down?
@@zacharykai6317 no I was just wondering if the guy was being fr
The "brown water " you are talking about in the Big Pine to Cudjoe area started at the end of July during mini season and Lobster opening the water was muddy. Visibility was about 1 foot.
Thanks for doing this, I hope they figure out why this is happening.I have been coming to The Keys for 30 years and it's a really amazing area, I hope they can figure out why it's happening.
Lotta people think it’s from the Sugar Cane farms in central florida contaminating the streams then out into the ocean
Nope not sugarcane. It’s the cattle.
Yup it’s the cane. Crazy thing is it’s grown better & cheaper in the islands but they don’t let us buy it to protect the cane families.
@@Iz0penYou mean the two rich cane families who buy politicians with their govt. subsidies ? Is that still going on down there ?
Run off from farms crop or cattle is not that hard or expensive to mitigate. Unless there are A holes involved. Which sounds like the case there.
The sugar cane farming is mostly in South Florida. South and East of lake Okeechobee.
Very odd for sure. I used to fish heavily about 7 years back and I have never seen anything like that.
I would look at Florida bay and Flamingo and test all of that water since essentially that is the path. Weird man, let's hope its not the start of a massive fish kill.
Here in north Florida... First I have heard. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
Heard about it to, up here in the north fla area. Thanks for sharing brother.
The consequences of our own actions... Everyone turned a blind eye, happily sitting in the comfort of their homes, instead of doing anything to protect the amazing things around us... To all who think we're in a dark time, just wait, you ain't seen nothing.
They have no idea what is causing this. Do you live in fla and do you sit in the comfort of your home.
@@Saltfly I do live in Florida, but I've been taking action for awhile now to stop things just like this...
spike protein shedding?
Tool
@@doug8888 uh oh, little buddy is mad he got called out 😂🤡
We have something similar here on the Alabama coast where the fish act crazy. It’s called a saltwater jubilee.
Jubilee’s are different. They are almost always associated with a north wind in the summer. Since landmasses are hotter than seawater temperatures (by about 15 degrees or hotter) the hotter air blowing southward toward the the gulf disturbs or disrupts the mixing of surface temperatures, thus causing unusual surface inland temperatures. Basically a form of hypoxia, where the availability of dissolved oxygen is affected. Nothing wrong with the fish, they are basically under oxygenated.
Thank you!!! ❤
I read accounts from a captain in the keys on bpk Facebook group that it is indeed happening offshore as well. The gentleman was yellowtailing in 25-30ft of water and after releasing 11" class yellowtail snapper they started spinning
Has anybody thought that this might be the result of Navy testing some kind of ultrasonic weapons or high def underwater mapping?
You can thank south Florida water manager for his leadership in wreaking our precious natural resource
I just found this video and channel. wow I didn't know that. I will share this video on my community tab and share with family. thank you for sharing.
Thank you for creating this video. We are going to spend a week in the area and keep our eyes open, we are also planning to create lots of underwater videos. Thanks again.
Big Sugar and the sewage coming out of the river in Lee County. We have been trying to fight them for decades. Big sugar is protected by the government.
Water coming into lake O is already contaminated from the kissimmee basin with ungodly amounts of fertilizer.
Valdosta Georgia pollutes the withlacoochee River
Contamination that’s what it is
Great under water video ! I went swimming in central west today, and I didn't see many fish or sting ray , just mullet , pin fish, blue crab , and a cool dolphin 🐬 that slowly swam next to me , They usually swim faster around me , but he seemed to be ok , I will check on him tomorrow.
Damn! I spent 35 years in south Florida. Many trips to the keys to fish at channel 5, and at little torch. We used to dive in KW every summer for at least 5 days. I worked at big pine for a few months after a hurricane back in 2019. I couldn't get over how nasty the water was there 100 miles off the coast.
You've got ten years! The keys will die!
TY AOC.
I seen this on my own boat. Bait in the livewell did the same weird spinning but I think it was due to action of the propeller when the live well was placed directly over the prop deck area without the livewell pump on. It was like some centrifugal force upon the fish I feel. Just antidotal but I thought worth mentioning.
Agreed about the brown water never seen anything like it in the 30 years that I have fished down here
Let’s call Pfizer and Moderna…I bet they will get it right lol.
Hahah they are probably the culprits.
Quit living in fear
@@trevojreal7not sure who this is aimed towards lol
And I'll give Bayer a call
@@phillycj524 The googans that still base their entire personality around being unvaxxed. We all know the vax is airborne, if you’ve been outside at any point in the last 3 years you’re at minimum triple boosted. Move on with your life.
Thank you so much for your effort and observations. Let’s pray that this phenomenon subsides.
Sawfish one of my favs. Was there last summer after 26 years. Didn’t even want to go in the water. Soooo hot so much coral bleaching - took a kayak trip through mangroves saw some dead fish, a few lobster one crab. Nothing else, for four hours?? So sad, this was in big pine- late July- I do remember it being brown too
I've seen the Indian River "turn over". A wall of cold brown briny smelling water just rolled in with the tide and the fishing turned on, strangely enough. I've seen the beach do the same thing once. Thanks for your report on the ground there. Food for thought...
Last February there was big red tide event in the upper 10,000 islands on the SWFL coast. It hung around for two weeks and killed lots of catfish/mullet and Goliath grouper. It was a dead zone of very strange brown water.
It's amazing how fast those Rays are when they want to scoot. Thank you for sharing, and I hope whatever is causing this is identified and removed.
This is so sad and scary. Thanks for raising awareness about this
yeeee ! thanks for the vid and honest info !
Thanks for alerting us to what is happening with the fish
You are right it is real I have watched a few investigations on TV in NYC on what is happening down by you and I could not get any answers on what is causing the fish to go and spin out like that, I asked someone who works out of Navarre Beach and Pier and he found nothing, what he did say was it was only happening in your area. Great Investigation video
2 months ago there was a major release from Lake Okeechobee down river to fort meyers