vermillion snapper sadness

I understand the beautiful vermillion snapper are feeding  around 100 feet offshore right now. Having read Gone With the Wind at the impressionable age of 12, I have always loved words that indicate red in any form:Mitchell's scarlet, Hemingway's carmine, and now-----vermillion. On my anti-Plasticene walk this morn, I picked up over two pounds of heavy stray plastic . It looked like rod holders that had been ditched on the roadside. I wonder if the owners of these were out after vermillion snapper?

The Washington Post October 26,2019  carried a lengthy article on legislation that is designed to deal with plastic pollution. The article was terrifying as it detail the problem with microplastics which are now being found in most fish....perhaps even vermillion snapper.

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