Episode 100: Chris Wittman - Captains for Clean Water

Mill House Podcast

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Wilderness, Sports, Leisure, Education, Hobbies

5 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Chris Wittman grew up fishing every second he could. He never thought of becoming a fishing guide until he became one in 2000. This was the same year The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan was signed into law by Governor Jeb Bush and President Clinton, which was a financial engine that was designated to save the Everglades. Invaluable clean water is paramount to insure the future of wildlife, birds and fish, and regain its lost prominence. The Everglades is one of our countries most treasured national parks and was rapidly dying. Over the next sixteen years the war over water was real and the flora and fauna of Florida was losing out to big sugar. In 2016, Lake Okeechobee was overwhelmed with green toxic water and billions of gallons were released into the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee Rivers emptying into the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico. It killed everything living in the water that was exposed to it. Even local riverside communities suffered the effects of the deadly water. Chris Wittman and Daniel Andrews quit their jobs as fishing guides to build an army to challenge the status quo in Tallahassee and help restore the clean water that was being misappropriated to the sugar industry. Through Chris Wittman, here is the story of Captains for Clean Water.

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0:00.0	Duck Camp makes outdoor goods so you can outdoor good. From the shallow water flats to the
0:08.0	Mallard Field Marshes, Duck Camp is there to make you feel comfortable and enhance the quality of your time and the elements.
0:15.0	Not only do they make some of the best outdoor apparel on the market,
0:19.0	but they support many of the organizations near and dear, fighting for a resource in the natural world.
0:26.3	Check them out at duckamp.com and tell them we sent you.
0:31.1	Whether on the boat, on the river or in the woods, Yettie products are by our side.
0:40.0	There are many innovative first-class companies in the outdoor market today, but none more so
0:45.2	than Yeti. In 2006, they took the industry by storm when they produced their first
0:51.2	rotomolded cooler that was reliable and built for the wild.
0:55.9	Seventeen years later with a multitude of new products they continued to raise the bar and
1:01.4	be the gold standard for all outdoor brands.
1:05.0	We couldn't be more proud to have them as a millhouse sponsor and a family member. In 2016, billions of gallons of polluted water ingested with toxic algae were released at
1:25.8	Lake Okeechobee into the St. Lucian Kloosahashi rivers, emptying into the
1:31.1	Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.
1:33.6	It killed everything that were exposed to it
1:36.6	from dolphins down to the smallest baitfish including
1:40.4	great game fish like tarpin and Snook.
1:43.5	Even local Riverside communities suffered the effects of this deadly water.
1:48.6	Then two fishing guides, Chris Whitman and Daniel Andrews, quit their jobs and created captains for clean water.
1:56.0	They grew an army of voices to challenge the status quo and hold policy makers and water managers accountable.
2:05.0	This is an important podcast, and it's an honor to have Chris on the show today. We broke everything, we broke lines, we broke hooks, we broke rods, we broke our minds, we broke
2:21.2	our minds, we broke marriages, we broke the whole thing.
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