# @saltwater_experience on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DNdyE8LOTBL
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- **Posted:** 2025-08-17T17:59:53.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Saltwater Experience (@saltwater_experience) — https://gondola.cc/saltwater_experience

## Caption

Drugs in FISH?🩸😬💉Seriously … 👇
📍Key Largo thefloridakeys 
Fishing Guide and FIU PHD Candidate, Nick Castillo captnickcastillo , needed our help in researching how pharmaceutical drugs make their way from humans into the Ocean.

In order to help we first had to catch a fish that is the most sensitive to absorbing drugs that could be in the water… the bonefish. 

After trailering up from hawkscayresort with our ameratrail_boat_trailers , we met with Nick and poled the flats outside of Key Largo’s Pennekamp State Park

It wasn’t long until we came across a school of the fish we needed. 

We poled after them and Nick made a great cast that landed perfectly in front of the school. Nick let it sit and then he felt the fish pick up the shrimp. 
 
After drawing blood and taking some measurements, We released the fish unharmed.

Nick brought a long a centerfuge to spin the blood and once the plasma was isolated we headed back to the FIU labs to send this sample all the way to SWEDEN for further testing!

If pharmaceuticals show up in the blood sample we know that the water system is compromised. Stay tuned for the results! ⚠️ 

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