Tossing Mullet

Nov 04 2008 – Aquaculture rises globally "Shrimp boats is a’comin" – Not so much!

Oct 21 2008 – The answer, my friends, is blowin’ in the wind Major kudos to Lulu’s in Gulf Shores for the groundbreaking effort to harness wind energy to power the "Bama Breeze," a tiki bar at the popular restaurant owned and operated by the sister of Alabama’s unofficial poet laureate, Jimmy Buffett.

Oct 07 2008 – The waning harvest I suppose it was really cool to see the story about the bio-fuel gas stations showing up in Mobile, Alabama and to have Gov.

Sep 23 2008 – Dauphin Island troubles were foreseen There are times when there is a glorious rush associated with saying, "I told you so" – and there are times when it borders on the painful.

Sep 10 2008 – Wolf! Wolf !! Wolf? In the aftermath of Hurricane Gustav, there are quite a few lessons to be learned.

Aug 26 2008 – ‘Round the LNG loop once more By the time this hits the street, the public hearing on the permit request from TORP for a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminal 64 miles south of Dauphin Island will be history.

Aug 12 2008 – No need to fear, it’s oil in a day’s work The pressure to develop domestic sources of oil is getting more and more intense even while gas prices are beginning to drift downwards a bit.

Jul 29 2008 – Big shop on the hill Wow! We are on the verge on the final stage of cultural shift to a new semi-virtual world -140,000 square feet of waterfalls, an archery range, a laser arcade, general store, fudge shop, restaurant with Disney-scaled aquaria filled with "colorful native fish" (according to the press release), and lots and lots of stuffed animals!

Jul 15 2008 – Dilution – Yes, Pollution – No! Well, the ADEM hearing on the proposed sewer treatment plant at the lower end of Bayou La Batre is over.

Jul 01 2008 – It came as no surprise Anderson Cooper and CNN were obsessing about a teen-age pregnancy club on the early news last week.

Jun 17 2008 – It is always with a real sense of awe that I visit Europe.

Jun 03 2008 – I just saw a commercial from the oil and gas industry proclaiming the availability of domestic hydrocarbon-based energy for the next 60 years.

May 19 2008 – You have to hand it to them – recreational fishermen are a tenacious bunch.

May 06 2008 – "Water, Water, Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink!" Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" in 1798 and the theme obviously deals with the threat of drinking salt water, which has dire consequences to our delicate systems, but the phrase has evolved to represent a number of contradictions where there’s a lot of something that we can’t figure out how to use it – even energy.

Apr 22 2008 – The challenge to the Northrop-Grumman/EADS tanker deal has dominated Mobile chit-chat for the better part of a month, but it has barely dented the communal euphoria as the "city of perpetual potential" emerges from the dark ages of post-WW II.

Apr 08 2008 – No Sewer? There is a raging debate in south Mobile County over the rebuilding of the Bayou La Batre sewer plant ravaged by time, mismanagement, and finally Hurricane Katrina.

Mar 25 2008 – It’s not that we have lost a passion for nature and the environment – it’s the simple fact that we have so seriously altered our modes of interaction.

Mar 11 2008 – Harvey Jackson is a professor of history at Jacksonville State University up "north" who recently wrote (Jan.

Feb 25 2008 – There was a workshop recently in the Panhandle held by NOAA’s (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) office for coastal research, which was intended to scavenge the brainpower of the Mississippi-Alabama-Panhandle region concerning research needs relative to sea level rise.

Feb 12 2008 – Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know it was cold last week and it’s likely to get cold next week – maybe even colder.

Jan 28 2008 – After 25 years with the Daupin Island Sea Lab, Dr. George Crozier joins Lagniappe as a columnist. In his first effort, he tackles the muddy problem the Highway 98 construction has caused.