Managing Aquatic Plants in Lake Apopka is the focus of a public meeting in Winter Garden on Tuesday, Jan. 24 hosted by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC). The meeting is from 6-9 p.m. in Tanner Hall, 29 W. Garden Avenue in Newton Park, Winter Garden, The goal of this meeting is to solicit [...]
Will Sunshine bass recapture Lake Apopka's glory days?
February 11, 2009 By Leave a Comment
By Rich McKay |Sentinel Staff Writer APOPKA – Beware gizzard shad, finned scourge of Lake Apopka! The state has a hungry, hybrid superfish with pointy teeth. Its name is sunshine bass, and it’s going to eat you. It’s all part of a state fish ranger’s plan to bring back the lake’s glory days, when it [...]
Storm blamed for thousands of dead fish in Lake Apopka
June 7, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Wes Smith – Orlando Sentinel Staff Writer A major storm early this week churned up shallow water at the south end of Lake Apopka, killing several thousand fish. The kill came just weeks after the state dumped nearly 200,000 sunshine-bass fingerlings in that same section of the troubled lake. “A big storm downburst like that [...]
