Alright guys time for a serious talk about long term effects of short bursts of sporadic weather events. In this case how the winter storm Uri messed up the Texas gulf coast.

The Texas gulf coast is comprised mainly of densely populated salt-marshes that house the most sought after fish here.
Redfish, flounder, pinfish, black drum and a variety of other fish use these marshes to feed and breed in.

We lost an estimated 3.8 million fish along the coast since the gulf, and a lot of those fish may not have been targeted by anglers a lot but it still effects the ecosystem balance

https://tpwd.texas.gov/newsmedia/releases/?req=20210310c

I witnessed this first hand, along with others who were there to see how devastating it was. We used it as a learning opportunity in the moment. We need to carry that knowledge and apply it to the current ecological context https://twitter.com/gobysimon/status/1363840099386073088?s=20

Although bigger aquatic systems just hit a HARD and FAST reset after a big kill in one part, the reset takes a lot of time in the human timescale. at least 2 years to bounce back to a more balanced community composition. We need to be more selective about our harvest throughout.

You can see all the different species that I don't regularly see but was able to find during the freeze in this thread: https://twitter.com/aan_an_adventur/status/1362504011161743362?s=20

What I'm trying to say is, We NEED to remember weather events in the context of ecological impact far longer than you would expect. the weather may be back to normal now but the impact has not been offset.