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Changing Seas
Mystery of the Spinning Fish
Season 17
Episode 1703
Between late 2023 and the spring of 2024 more than 80 species of fish were observed spinning in the Florida Keys. While most were able to recover, a large number of endangered smalltooth sawfish died. A group of multidisciplinary scientists is trying to piece together what happened in the environment to cause this unusual phenomenon.
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