Florida Commissioner’s Spotlight: Protecting Florida’s Apalachicola Bay

Randall Weiseman December 29, 2014 Aquaculture, FL Commissioner Report, Florida, Water

Adam Putnam

On this week’s Commissioner’s Spotlight, Florida’s Commissioner of Agriculture Adam Putnam talks to Franko Galoso about what’s being done to protect Florida’s Apalachicola Bay that has been devastated by Georgia’s over consumption of water.

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