Speech Class{my topic: reefs/ocean}

[~LadyBug~]

Okay, so I'm taking a speech class this semester, and since I'm not only a ocean nut, but happen to go to a college with a main campus twenty minutes from the ocean, I figure my classmates will either be happy to hear about the ocean and reefs or at the very least expecting someone to talk about it, right? (one of my classmates literally works on the beach, so... )

 

So I thought I'd mine y'all for ideas. I'm in Florida, and I thought I'd touch on the invasive lionfish situation at some point, mostly because I've been meaning to research it anyway, and hey, two birds/one stonefish, amiright? I have a informative speech first and then a persuasive speech, and just for giggles, I'd like to keep it the topic as local as I can.

 

Has anyone read any good articles recently about the reef/fish/oceans around Florida? Thank you

[Christopher Marks]

Invasive lionfish would be a great topic, there are a lot of different groups trying to solve the problem. The state officially banned captive lionfish breeding late last year: http://www.al.com/news/beaches/index.ssf/2014/09/florida_bans_lionfish_breeding.html

[~LadyBug~]

Invasive lionfish would be a great topic, there are a lot of different groups trying to solve the problem. The state officially banned captive lionfish breeding late last year: http://www.al.com/news/beaches/index.ssf/2014/09/florida_bans_lionfish_breeding.html

That's really interesting! I didn't realize they had banned import and breeding; thanks!

 

I'm looking for a source I can cite on the artificial reef project, I found this on the FWC website, but it doesn't have an author or a publish date, so I can't use it. http://myfwc.com/conservation/saltwater/artificial-reefs/ I am picking up a couple of FL reef/ocean books at the library today, so hopefully they'll have something

[HecticDialectics]

That's really interesting! I didn't realize they had banned import and breeding; thanks!

 

I'm looking for a source I can cite on the artificial reef project, I found this on the FWC website, but it doesn't have an author or a publish date, so I can't use it. http://myfwc.com/conservation/saltwater/artificial-reefs/ I am picking up a couple of FL reef/ocean books at the library today, so hopefully they'll have something

Of course the website has an author and a publish date

 

Ridiculous idiot professors aside, look at the side bar on the right... And then come back and tell us how you just didn't look very hard.

[~LadyBug~]

Of course the website has an author and a publish date

 

Ridiculous idiot professors aside, look at the side bar on the right... And then come back and tell us how you just didn't look very hard.

 

If you're talking about at the bottom, where is says, 'copyright State of Florida 1999-2015', that's not specific enough. And I looked plenty hard, I went over the page several times and also ran in through a citation website on the chance it could pull something out of the URL or catch something I missed.

[natalia_la_loca]

If you're talking about lionfish, be sure to give some recipes

[HecticDialectics]

 

If you're talking about at the bottom, where is says, 'copyright State of Florida 1999-2015', that's not specific enough. And I looked plenty hard, I went over the page several times and also ran in through a citation website on the chance it could pull something out of the URL or catch something I missed.

You're really bad at looking. Look again. The same page you linked. There are PDF copies of actual papers on the right hand side.

 

College kids are basically remedial middle schoolers these days...