Yellow patches

Saltwater Offshore Reports
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Kept running across this yellow foul-looking material on the way out Sunday from Hilton Head to Deli. Anywhere from 80ft to 150ft depths. Thought it might be some sort of algae. Looks like pollen up close. Seems to be getting worse each trip.

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We noticed this past weekend, not as clumped but the tint was present on surfface. It did appear look like pollen/algae.

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weedline spawn

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weather.com has a high pollen alert out right now, so that’s a good possibility

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Algae Bloom, I think.

NN

www.joinrfa.org/

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We saw it yesterday in 60’ and then again in 80’ close to the Edisto Offshore reef. Plenty in 60’ on the way back in.

You can’t catch fish on a dry line

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It was very present in the water anchored in 160’ and then we hit monster thick patches on the way back to 90’ Friday

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Mike Martinez

2016 Sea Hunt 25 Gamefish twin Yamaha 150’s

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I second the algae bloom

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I’m going to go with What is Sargasso Sea Weed pollination byproducts for 20 Alex.

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https://ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/blog/2015/04/20/pollinated-coastal-waters-run-yellow/

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quote:
Originally posted by Rose Ellyn

https://ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/blog/2015/04/20/pollinated-coastal-waters-run-yellow/

thats interesting info. pretty crazy that dust storms from africa are affecting our water here.

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quote:
Originally posted by mdaddy

I’m going to go with What is Sargasso Sea Weed pollination byproducts for 20 Alex.

I'm sorry Dumb A**, there goes your cab fare. That's what you get for guessing. Scary what might blow in from North Africa considering all the stool going on there.
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quote:
Originally posted by mdaddy

I’m going to go with What is Sargasso Sea Weed pollination byproducts for 20 Alex.

This guy ^^^^^

State Farm Agent
N Myrtle Beach

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This is why this website is so great. We have a library at our fingertips. This stimulated me to “educate” myself. As fatrat has as his quote:
“Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education”
MLK I’m sure is smiling somewhere.

Here are some facts about that “foul-looking” material(I agree…thought it was pollution 1st time I saw it):

  • Nitrogen fixation is a process in which nitrogen (N2) in the atmosphere is converted into ammonia (NH3).

  • Nitrogen fixation in Trichodesmium is unique among diazotrophs because the process occurs concurrently with oxygen production (via photosynthesis)

-Trichodesmium is the major diazotroph in marine pelagic systems [5] and is an important source of “new” nitrogen in the nutrient poor waters it inhabits.

-The colonial marine cyanobacterium Trichodesmium is thought to fix nitrogen on such a scale that it accounts for almost half of the nitrogen fixation in marine systems on a global scale.

Seeing that dust from the African Sahara Desert makes it to the Atlantic Gulf Stream makes one stop and think of the what ifs…It truly is a circle of life.

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