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Researchers work to bring Biscayne Bay back from the brink

In August of 2020, hundreds of barracuda, eels, lobsters, pufferfish, toadfish, rays and snook in northern Biscayne Bay died on a single night. The FIU Institute of Environment quickly took action, deploying automated surface vessels, buoys and researchers to monitor the bay for clues about what had happened - though many suspected a long-simmering problem a century in the making.