If you don't do anything else..

[Spanky06]

Done!!!!

Spanky

[Deadeye1]

I signed and Shared on FB.

I also plan to post it on other Florida Boards.

This Must Stop.

[hawgswinger]

Done.

[Chopper]

Done!

[RangerJim]

Done

[joby1]

done!

[AlexH]

Signed and shared on facebook. I saw 2 aa airboats at south port today

[cwilt]

I thought about posting a link in the lounge to get some more signatures. Is it for floridians only?

[Mickstix]

I thought about posting a link in the lounge to get some more signatures. Is it for floridians only?

Please do! IMO, it's approaching a "national" disaster (and it'll only get worse) It needs all the attention it can get!!

[MARK R]

Done

[Jpadge]

Signed and shared!!

[bass_prodigy75]

The link posted is actually not very accurate. Glyphosate is not used for hydrilla control and never has been, actually it doesn't even work applied subsurface below the water because it is quickly deactivated, binds to sediments, and broken down by microbes in the water. It has to be applied to the foliage of plants to actually work. The article also states it is a "known carcinogen"... this is also false, there is no peer reviewed data/information that points to glyphosate as being a carcinogen, it is actually listed as a "probable carcinogen" along with a number of other chemicals people are exposed to nearly every day. The person that started the petition also doesn't provide any evidence/data that links glyphosate to be the actual culprit responsible for the algal blooms mostly just speculation, and they are essentially focusing only on aquatic applications, but what about all the glyphosate that is applied on agriculture, residential and commercial properties. Not siding with anyone on this but these claims seem to be somewhat vague with limited data to support them.

[LuistLTZ]

Signed! Wish there was more we could do.

[Mickstix]

The link posted is actually not very accurate. Glyphosate is not used for hydrilla control and never has been

So he said hydrilla and meant hyacinth.. Potato/Tomato I could care less what actual chemical it is, it's herbicide on a massive scale and it (if not solely, then partially) helps turn our lakes and rivers into mud holes.. To tell you the truth, when I saw you had posted in this thread, I was just glad you didn't try and tell us the poison spraying would actually help the growth of vegetation and clean the water..

[bass_prodigy75]

Haha. Well as a matter of fact managing dense patches of water hyacinth with herbicides could actually lead to increased sunlight penetration below the water surface and increase submerged aquatic vegetation that would otherwise be shaded out which would lead to more sediment stabilization and clear up the water. So actually someone could say "the poison spraying is actually helping the growth of vegetation and cleaning the water" with out it being #fakenews.

[bass_prodigy75]

But IMO, if you are going to start a petition and send it to state congressmen etc. with 150,000 signatures it would help to have the facts straight on what plant species and or chemical is even being used. In my opinion if someone came to me so concerned about an issue and started a whole web page petition etc. but didn't even know what plant was being targeted and had pictures of hyacinth labeled as hydrilla and made claims that a plant is being treated with a chemical its not even labeled for I probably tell em they need to get things Right before they get Left.

[MARK R]

And if you were here and could see how screwed up( yea, I just bit my tongue) the fishing has gotten with all this unneeded and unwanted spraying you'd sign the petition if it said the sky was pink to get the spraying under control!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kadas]

And if you were here and could see how screwed up( yea, I just bit my tongue) the fishing has gotten with all this unneeded and unwanted spraying you'd sign the petition if it said the sky was pink to get the spraying under control!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THIS^^^^ Agree with how bad the FWC is screwing up all the lakes with this mission of killing anything green

[Deadeye1]

Update on this Petition:

It now has over 100,000 signatures.

TV News has now picked up on the story as well and are questioning the FWC:

https://www.wpbf.com/article/impact-...algae/22816479

[Mickstix]

That's awesome!! Unfortunately, looking at her "twitter".. She has 4K followers and her tweet about the story has 3 (three) "likes".. People either don't give a crap or they have their head in the sand..