Ferry Service to begin in spring 2017 downtown to SR island

http://www.pnj.com/story/news/local/environment/2014/06/26/pensacola-hatchery-ferry-service-funded/11442107/

Finally, a little progress

It's about time there was a ferry to PB/Ft. Pickens from downtown. This idea has been thrown around for years. On the fish hatchery, I'm afraid our water is still to polluted to make this plan viable. I don't know too many people who actually eat the seafood from the Gulf anymore. That makes me want to...scream and throw things. I have lived near the Gulf virtually my entire life...was raised on fish my parents caught, or I caught. Saw something on the news recently...something like 80% of the local seafood comes from somewhere else. (The segment was actually about being wary of fish that claims, for instance, to be red snapper, when in fact it's probably tilapia caught in some other...also polluted...water.) I don't know how anyone could mistake red snapper for tilapia, but hey.

I do know that South Padre Island has had a fish hatchery program for decades. ..a partnership between Texas Fish & Wildlife and the local electric company. But they didn't get the impact of the Deepwater Horizon blowout...and no one put Corexit into their water.

Totally agree FT

The pristine beauty of the Gulf Coast as a child is a cherished memory. It is beyond sad what BP has done, and how dangerous the Gulf has become. You certainly do not want to create a panic, but there really has to be discussions on how to reduce the toxicity of the Gulf waters beyond the band aid appearances and BP ads on tv. The environment is not a liberal or conservative debate......it is our survival, and BP has not even began to make this right........paying for a ferry or a hatchery.......is just shut up money.......and this shut up is compounded by the interests of the beach business to keep the toxicity a secret........God help the children being exposed to those waters, and those who eat what is taken out of the water.

Escambia already has some of the worst air quality in Florida now we can add the gulf too the list.

right itchy, we cant have this!