EP 523: Did A Sod Farmer Crack The Code On Seagrass Restoration?
Salt Strong Fishing
Joe Simonds
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
It's no secret, our seagrass has been dying at an alarming pace.
For those who don't know, seagrass is critical to our waterways, fisheries, and marine life in general.
Well, a sod farmer from Florida started trying to grow different grass in some of his favorite fishing holes many years ago, and now it's turned into a full-scale company.
In fact, they are doing a really special seagrass restoration project in the Mosquito Lagoon.
Listen in as Katie Kramer, from Sea & Shoreline, shares what they are doing and how it impacts us an anglers.
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| 0:00.0 | It's fishing and it's in my soul. |
| 0:05.1 | Welcome to the Salt Strong Podcast, disrupting fishing entertainment as you know it, prepare |
| 0:11.4 | to laugh, prepare to get to know fishing legends in a whole new and unfiltered way. |
| 0:16.8 | And on occasion, you might even learn a thing or two about fishing. |
| 0:20.5 | Here's your host, Joe Simons, like diamonds. |
| 0:24.5 | Hello! |
| 0:26.5 | The Salt Strong Nation, Joe Simons, like diamonds, we are back again. |
| 0:30.3 | We're talking about conservation, talking about seagrass. |
| 0:33.3 | I have two amazing guests. |
| 0:34.8 | Justin is here with me. |
| 0:36.3 | Anytime we talk about conservation, Justin joins. |
| 0:39.2 | He spent a lot of time working with grass in college. |
| 0:41.9 | And then that came out wrong, but Justin did a lot of time in college. |
| 0:47.1 | And even after college working with a seerold and all kinds of different places, |
| 0:52.5 | we can talk about that a little bit. |
| 0:53.9 | And I got Katie Kramer, who is a came from my friend, Michelle, there at the Fish and Wildlife |
| 1:00.6 | Foundation of Florida. |
| 1:02.8 | And Katie also works with seagrass and restoration. |
| 1:06.9 | And you guys have been doing some really cool stuff for, I believe, like, multiple decades. |
| 1:10.8 | So welcome to the show. |
| 1:12.9 | Start with you, Katie, what's the background of this company? |
| 1:16.0 | Tell us who you are and what you guys do and how you're saving the world from a lack of |
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