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To: Ish who wrote (339)	2/25/2001 5:55:02 PM
From: Bill/WA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6901

<<When I was a kid every shop in Florida had conch shells for sale.>> That's one of the reasons they were wiped out. If I remember correctly, its against the law to even have a conch shell in your boat. Water quality is the next big problem, Everglades being drained, sugar cane fertilizer (nitrates) draining to the flats on the lower Gulf grass beds (the beginning of the food cycle) causing algae blooms, even on the reefs on the ocean side of the Keys. Pollution on the east coast - used to snorkel on the shallow reefs around Palm Bch county as a kid (sea fans, tropical fish, lobster, cowries, etc.), took the kids there about 10 yrs ago and the reefs were bare. Clamming on grass beds in Martin county and Indian River county are regulated by the amount of rainfall because of the drain off of fertilizer and pesticides from the citris groves - progress. One of the reasons I moved out to WA state, close to the mountains. I was ruined by living and growing up in FL and saw it basically go to hell. Condos right down to the beach, seawalls and filled in grass beds, destroyed mangroves for developers. People moved down to FL and in the process what they moved there for was crushed. Sorry for getting into a funk, anyway, life goes on. Bill/WA