It’s really messing up my fishing, that’s my primary fishing grounds. I was down there yesterday without the boat just checking things out and the bait shops said the shrimp catch is really off too. All the fresh water being exhausted from the Mississippi river into the Mississippi sound has really screwed it up. The river carries all kinds of agricultural runoff from the midwest and I think it’s all the fertilizer residue that’s causing the algae bloom. Hopefully they’ll close the Bonnet Carré Spillway soon so things can get back to normal.
Judging from all the red on the online weather maps of the rivers in the Mississippi basin, this is going to go on for a good while.
Hopefully the brewing depression/TS Barry expected end of the week will stir up the water and dissipate the bloom. Nature doing its own cleanup.
This has been a problem for years, and as I saw the lede and saw NBC as the source, I remarked to the wife that I’d see “climate change” in the article.
Bingo.
Journalists are such simpletons. One can see their excrement oozing miles away.
Been a while since I’ve been to the Magnolia State and Biloxi. Are the casinos still situated on the beach, and are they still open?
Never go in the Water
Just came back from there yesterday. They closed the beaches, but failed to post any signage that I saw warning people of the closures and the dangers involved. They did stick up orange flags at each of the beach entrances. I saw lots of people in the water including many kids.
Funny thing is, there were plenty of signs and orange tape saying that fireworks were prohibited (to protect the terns). Just none saying that the beaches were closed.