Cold Weather Kills Fish In Florida

[Guest Sundancefisher]

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/weather/2...illed.fish.wbbh

 

 

[Taco]

The new ice age will be terribly hard on them too

[Flyfisher]

From another board: http://www.danblanton.com/viewmessage.php?id=133727

 

 

This season promised to be the best season in SW Florida since hurricane Wilma. Lots of bait, lots of large Snook, lots of Tarpon and lots of sea life in general. We had a record warm fall and early winter and the local fish were joined by the migrating fish and they all sort of set up camp here because the water temperatures were in the 70s.

 

Our current cold spell, which has been going on for over a week, with nights in the 30s followed by days in the 40s, has reduced the water temperature from the 70s to the mid to low 50s and our tropical fish start dying after it passes 60.

 

Our fish population has swelled as fish have come in from the Gulf were it is even colder, vainly looking for relief. There are thousands of dead Tarpon, Snook, Catfish, and bait fish floating in the waters south of Marco Island. It is truly tragic! The cold spell is slowly passing but fish will continue to die until the water temperature recovers and that is going to be a slow process as we continue to experience below average temperatures. It is overcast and 50 degrees here on Marco Island at 10:30 and the lows are in the low 40s at night. This is devastating!

 

 

Quite likely the cold weather in Florida is due to El Nino influence.

 

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/anal...ry/ensodisc.pdf