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Harbormaster details mooring counts, a Buccaneer Lagoon fish kill and funding gap for enforcement boat
Summary
At the March 23 Anchorage Advisory Committee meeting, Harbormaster Curtis Ludwick reported rising mooring and anchorage use, a recent concentrated fish kill in Buccaneer Lagoon under investigation by FWC and county partners, and an enforcement boat that is operational but lacks budgeted funds for long-term slip storage.
Harbormaster Curtis Ludwick told the Anchorage Advisory Committee on March 23 that anchorage and mooring use is increasing as the season begins, that the town is investigating a concentrated fish kill in Buccaneer Lagoon, and that the committee still lacks funds to pay annual dockage for its enforcement vessel.
Ludwick said the town currently has roughly 18 vessels in the back anchorage, about nine in the front anchorage and “about 45 boats on the mooring ball,” a number that rose into the upper 50s on weekends. He said three sunken or abandoned vessels are tagged and moving through the Lee County Sheriff/FWC process and that engineers found the town’s 89 mooring systems to be “solid”…
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