EP 270: Scary Covid-like Disease Attacking Florida's Largest Coral Reef!

Salt Strong Fishing

Joe Simonds

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I have on Andrew Walker, President & CEO of the Fish and Wildlife Foundation of Florida to share what is going on with the a disease outbreak known as Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease that is impacted one of the largest coral reefs in the world. Listen in as Andy shares what is going on, what they are doing about it, and what this means for the future of our coral reefs off of Florida.

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0:00.0	This fishing, it's in my soul.
0:05.0	Welcome to the Salt Strong Podcast.
0:08.0	Disrupting fishing entertainment as you know it.
0:11.0	Prepare to laugh.
0:12.0	Prepare to get to know fishing legends in a whole new and unfiltered way.
0:17.0	And on occasion, you might even learn a thing or two about fishing.
0:20.0	Here's your host, Joe Simons.
0:23.0	Like Diamonds.
0:25.0	Hello, Salt Strong Nation.
0:28.0	We are back.
0:29.0	Joe Simons.
0:30.0	Like Diamonds.
0:31.0	Another episode here.
0:32.0	This is going to be a fun one, maybe an alarming one.
0:36.0	I know it was for me when I started reading into this.
0:39.0	Michelle had reached out to me.
0:41.0	Her husband is one of our insider members.
0:43.0	And she's like, do you know anything about the stony coral tissue issue?
0:47.0	And I said, I've heard of it, but I don't even know what it means.
0:50.0	And I start reading up on it.
0:52.0	And I start seeing things like it's, you know, this disease that's spreading amongst coral.
0:58.0	They don't really know exactly where it started.
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