After the crowd left the site of a landmark event in the state’s management of its recreational fisheries, Aaron Watson stood ankle deep in a pair of leaky boots at the Murrells Inlet Boat Landing. He scooped up water in a five gallon bucket and poured it over the ramp.
Just below the water, hundreds of juvenile Southern flounder no bigger than a finger nail had settled onto the concrete.
Boat traffic was light, but Watson and other scientists who raised the 10,000 flounder released into the inlet last week weren’t taking any chances…