'Seafood Jubilee' As Low Oxygen Drives Fish and Shrimp Ashore in Mississippi
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Associated Press] August 2, 2017
BILOXI, Miss. -- Large numbers of fish, shrimp, crabs and eels have been coming ashore in Mississippi, in what's called a jubilee.
The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources says there were jubilee conditions Wednesday (July 26) for fish, shrimp, crabs and eels near the Gulfport and Long Beach harbors. It says that by early Thursday, shrimp, crabs and eels -- but no finfish -- were washing ashore from the Broadwater in Biloxi to west of Pass Christian Harbor.
Finfish bureau director Matt Hill says jubilees occur when the oxygen levels drop in very warm, calm shallow ...
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