{"id":2135,"date":"2025-04-29T16:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T16:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/tbs\/?p=2135"},"modified":"2025-04-29T17:15:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T17:15:04","slug":"tampa-bay-times-feature-april-10-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/tbs\/tampa-bay-times-feature-april-10-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Times Feature &#8211; April 10, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-justify-content-center fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1216.8px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_3_4 3_4 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:75%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:2.56%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:2.56%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element \" style=\"text-align:left;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2333\" height=\"1054\" title=\"TBS project\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/tbs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/TBS-project-1.png\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/tbs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/TBS-project-1.png\" alt class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-2146\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%272333%27%20height%3D%271054%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%202333%201054%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%272333%27%20height%3D%271054%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/tbs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/TBS-project-1-200x90.png 200w, https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/tbs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/TBS-project-1-400x181.png 400w, https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/tbs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/TBS-project-1-600x271.png 600w, https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/tbs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/TBS-project-1-800x361.png 800w, https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/tbs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/TBS-project-1-1200x542.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/tbs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/TBS-project-1.png 2333w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-one\" style=\"--awb-margin-top:25px;--awb-font-size:40px;\"><h1 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;text-transform:none;font-size:1em;--fontSize:40;line-height:var(--awb-typography1-line-height);\">What\u2019s contaminating Tampa Bay\u2019s fish? These scientists are angling for answers.<\/h1><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>A 5-year study aims to analyze the contaminants in the fish species most coveted by Tampa Bay anglers.<\/p>\n<p>By: Max Chesnes<\/p>\n<\/div><div style=\"text-align:left;\"><a class=\"fusion-button button-flat fusion-button-default-size button-custom fusion-button-default button-1 fusion-button-default-span fusion-button-default-type fusion-has-button-gradient\" style=\"--button_accent_color:var(--awb-color1);--button_accent_hover_color:var(--awb-color1);--button_border_hover_color:var(--awb-color1);--button_gradient_top_color:var(--awb-color4);--button_gradient_bottom_color:var(--awb-color7);--button_gradient_top_color_hover:var(--awb-color4);--button_gradient_bottom_color_hover:var(--awb-color4);--button_margin-bottom:20px;\" target=\"_self\" data-hover=\"text_slide_up\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/environment\/2025\/04\/10\/tampa-bay-fishing-snook-sheepshead-redfish-seatrout-contamination\/\"><div class=\"awb-button__hover-content awb-button__hover-content--default awb-button__hover-content--centered\"><span class=\"fusion-button-text awb-button__text awb-button__text--hover\">Log in to Tampa Bay Times for Access (free)<\/span><span class=\"fusion-button-text awb-button__text awb-button__text--default\">Read Full Story Here<\/span><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2,4,37,22,24],"tags":[25,14,35,55,30,56,15,27,92],"class_list":["post-2135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fish","category-in-the-press","category-on-going-research","category-project-updates","category-sampling-updates","category-tbs-news","tag-chemicals-of-emerging-concern","tag-field-research","tag-fisheries-research","tag-forever-chemicals","tag-pfas","tag-seafood-safety","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-chemical-surveillance","tag-tampa-bay-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/tbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/tbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/tbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/tbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/tbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2135"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/tbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2147,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/tbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions\/2147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/tbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/tbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/tbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/tbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}