Researchers are racing to figure out what’s causing the bizarre behavior and how to stop it.
Scientists don't know why fish in Florida are"spinning." - There’s a strange underwater mystery in the Florida Keys.Now, researchers are racing to figure out what’s causing the bizarre behavior and how to stop it.
“I noticed the fish were spinning, and so I started taking video of that. I really had no idea what I was looking at,” Furstenwerth said. State fish and wildlife officials and Florida’s Bonefish and Tarpon Trust have logged nearly 200 incidents with over 30 species acting this way, mostly in the lower Keys, but as far north as Miami.
“Typically, when we think of fish acting strangely or dying, we either think of low oxygen conditions in the water or red tide, and so we saw neither,” Mike Parsons, professor of marine science at Florida Gulf Coast University’s water school, said.
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