Lionfish: Beautiful, but Deadly, Invaders
Lionfish are strikingly gorgeous tropical reef fish, striped pink, red, silver and black with graceful frills decorating their fins. But...
The Day of the…Sargassum Weed?
In the classic 1951 sci-fi novel The Day of the Triffids, made into a 1962 film, a strange meteor shower renders everyone who watches it...
Fishy Monsters
Fishing around docks and oyster reefs can yield an unpleasant surprise: squirming on the hook is a squat, monstrous-looking fish with a...
Georgia Outdoor Episodes
The PBS show Georgia Outdoors, produced and hosted by veteran reporter Sharon Collins, has wonderful episodes on coastal wildlife and...
Gone Fishing
The Sherr family: sons Jared and Aaron, husband Barry, and father-in-law Saul Sherr surf fishing on Nannygoat Beach, Sapelo Island, 1987....
Dolphins versus Porpoises
'Dolphin,' I said. 'No,' my husband Barry insisted, 'a dolphin is a fish, the marine mammal is a porpoise!' In revising my book 'Marsh...
The Teeth of Jaws
One of the pleasures of beachcombing on Georgia sea islands is spotting rare treasures such as castoff shark's teeth. All sharks have...
So, what is a mummichog?
The minnow-like fish swarming in tidal creeks at low tide, or in the marsh at high tide, are mummichogs, the most common of the species...
