Gulf Coast snook fans remain shut out

Gulf Coast snook fans are entering the second year of a snook shutout following the fallout from the fish-killing hard freeze of January 2010.

That extended period of record cold weather chilled water temperatures and killed critical masses of fish populations in all state waters, especially shallow waters of western Florida, Ten Thousand Islands, Everglades National Park and the Florida Keys.
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The devastation to the South Florida inshore fish populations wrought by that 2010 freeze shocked even the most experienced anglers and fishery scientists.

Ron Taylor, senior biologist with the FWRI's snook program based in St. Petersburg, said the magnitude of the fish kill surpassed previous killing freezes like those on Christmas Eve 1989 and the day it snowed in January 1977.

"We heard estimates of dead snook that numbered into the tens of thousands and even had a biologist in the Southwest Florida bandying about numbers in the hundreds of thousands," Taylor said.

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