Incredible Photos Captured off Singer Island by Hakai Magazine

Hakai Magazine, a multiple award-winning coastal science magazine based in Canada, has a feature story in this month's edition about the massive mullet migration off the coast of Singer Island.

The article is called "Mullet Mania" and it includes high-def photos of mullet and its predators all along the island. Photographer and author, Michael Patrick O'Neill, documented using his drone and underwater camera which allows you to view the sealife from a perspective other than the beach. You can see just how many fish there really are in the water by viewing the article here. 

All along the Florida coast, the mullet leave inland estuaries and rivers and head out to sea every year. They spawn offshore in emormous schools, which resemble an oil slick when you look at the article's aerial photos. 

In the early 1990s, Florida voted to implement a net ban, prohibiting the use of large and entangling nets near the shore, which has given mullet and other species a chance to repopulate after overfishing. After 23 years of the ban, the striped-back mullet have made a comeback. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission say the ban was not a cure-all but it helped the population overall and minimized catches of non-targeted marine life. 

Now researchers from many countries come to Singer Island to document and film spring migrations of mullet and its predator the black tip shark. Read more about the mullet here and see blacktip shark photos and footage from Singer Island here.