CAN FLORIDA COME BACK?

Toxic algal blooms blanket mile after mile of beach, shuttering tourism economies built largely on world-class fishing for tarpon, snook, redfish, bonefish, and snapper. Thirty-five miles south of my tarpon glory at Cape Sable, I'm being fed a steady diet of humility, thanks to picky bonefish ghosting the edges of a broad flat west of Islamorada. We drift in the dead center of one of the most critical flows of water in all of South Florida, where the outfall from the Shark River slough wraps around the state's peninsular tip, funneling fresh water into the vast estuary of Florida Bay. Gray Ghosted Irregular influxes of water from Florida Bay have displaced populations of bonefish from their home range. [Extracted from the article]