Matanzas Riverkeeper

10/14/2026

🎣If you fish the Guana, Tolomato, and Matanzas estuary, you already know what makes these waters special. But our fishery is under pressure and needs your help.

Pollution, damaging boat wakes, and continued development are taking a toll on the shallow-water habitats that fish depend on. It’s not one single threat, it’s death by a thousand cuts situation.

That’s why Matanzas Riverkeeper is launching Casting for Conservation, a program built specifically to get local anglers involved in protecting the waters and fish they care about.

Through hands-on restoration projects, scientific data collection, and volunteer opportunities, anglers can play a direct role in improving the health of our estuary and safeguarding our local fisheries for the future.

🔗 If interested in learning more and helping out, you can find the link to the Casting for Conservation program page at our Linktr.ee (in bio), on the corresponding story post, or on our website.

10/14/2026

10/10/2026

"When you have excess nutrients, namely nitrogen and phosphorus in a waterway, you start to see water quality problems like harmful algal blooms and things like fish kills," Lomberk explained.

🔗Link in Bio.

10/06/2026

Join us next Tuesday!

10/06/2026

“We’re getting development that basically nobody, except for a few landowners in the community, wants to move forward,” said Chris Farrell, a policy analyst at the environmental nonprofit Audubon Florida.

A new farmland development law is one of a string wresting power over development away from local government.

09/29/2026

Would you like to see more land conserved in St. Johns County?

🌳 If so, join us for a town hall discussion about St. Johns Forever – A ballot initiative to protect our water, wildlife, farms, and forests

📆 Thursday, October 1st from 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

📍 Center for Spiritual Living - 1795 Old Moultrie Road, St Augustine, FL 32084

✍ Register here: https://lwvjaxfc.org/content.aspx?page_id=4091&club_id=782872&item_id=3069201

09/27/2026

❓Did you know❓

Each estuary displays unique beauty and attracts many visitors. Tourists and residents visit estuaries to hunt and fish, watch birds, take photographs, hike, canoe and kayak, and observe wildlife.

Tourism and recreation in coastal areas like estuaries contribute approximately $143 billion to the national economy each year. Ocean-based tourism and recreation industries employ nearly 2.5 million people. Coastal tourism jobs are also growing steadily, at a slightly higher rate than other economic sectors.


📸: Roger Linville
📝: NOAA

09/25/2026

❓Did you know❓

Estuaries play an important role in protecting communities from the impacts of flooding and extreme weather. Salt marshes and seagrass beds serve as natural infrastructure that can protect coastal communities from flooding and erosion. Marshes, mangroves, and seagrass beds can help capture and store carbon from greenhouse gases—like carbon dioxide—from the atmosphere. This type of carbon is known as coastal blue carbon.


📸: Richard Thomas
📝: NOAA