Tuesday Reading

Stephen Nohlgren: It lacks the carnal drama of a python-alligator showdown in the Everglades, or the body-slamming potential of a leaping Suwannee sturgeon. But given its staid urban habitat, this quirk of nature bears telling.

A large goliath grouper lives in a stormwater retention pond in mid Pinellas County.

It probably came from the bay through an outlet pipe when it was young – perhaps more than a decade ago. A fisherman who recently hooked it thinks it approaches 180 pounds, still modest for a species that can top 800.

Now it may be landlocked – too fat to squeeze back through the pipe to a more natural setting.

Joe Eaton: Inside his rural Virginia house trailer, Carson Warner lounges on…