🌊 COASTAL DAYS Ep. 2 | Seagrass research with Florida Oceanographic Society
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Since 2009, the Indian River Lagoon along Florida's east coast has lost about 58% of its seagrasses, foundational habitat for the 150-mile Estuary of National Significance.
Without that essential seagrass, the treasured lagoon faces a challenging future, but restoring the grass is a lot more complicated than just replanting it.
That's where Florida Oceanographic Society's FOSTER program comes in.
FOSTER (Florida Oceanographic Seagrass Training, Education and Restoration) aims "to train volunteers to assist with seagrass monitoring and restoration while educating the public on issues facing seagrass."
Through the program, FOS is researching new and innovative ways to restore vital seagrass habitat while also engaging the public on the fragile nature of the effort.
Threatened by Lake Okeechobee discharges, algal blooms, and poor water quality, seagrass in the lagoon is always vulnerable to loss events.
That's why FOS is working hard to identify the most effective, lasting seagrass restoration strategies while underscoring and advocating for the simultaneous need to fix the water-quality issues that threaten the seagrass and other habitat in the first place.
By reducing Lake Okeechobee discharges through efforts like Everglades restoration and by improving statewide water-quality through new legislation, we can ease the pressure on the seagrass.
That's where YOU can help! Learn more about the issues, get others involved, and be a VOICE for our waters!
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Great video! Thank you for you hard work!
Why aren’t these videos getting more views? Do you think big sugar is paying UA-cam to decrease its views via the algorithm?
Recent hurricanes have caused a serious problem for Florida water quality because the bottom of Lake Okeechobee got churned up and millions of tons of phosphates from US Sugar got back into suspension and is poisoning the lake and the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee rivers which bring the toxic garbage to the coasts destroying our seagrass and fish populations. It's a huge crime to continue subsidizing US Sugar via the massively corrupt Farm Bill. As a 41 year fishing guide veteran I have watched our ecology die and it breaks my heart.
Thanks Captain, absolutely TRUE!
It's really sad and there's a lot of good people that want to save it. Tallahassee is corrupt and won't regulate pollution in any meaningful way. Hard to watch the sea life decline.
@@Bradimoose I'm coming to appreciate Captains For Clean Water more by the day. They need our support which at the moment is hard for me because I was wiped out with the storm surge from Hurricane Ian. Even my boat was destroyed. Hard times are here for many of us near the landfall of that beast.