MS Beach Advisory
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I am guessing from all the rain up stream the past few weeks. This is fairly common down there. You could not pay me to go into the MississippI Sound, though - advisory or no advisory.
It’s why the inshore fishing is so spectacular. You can literally catch a limit of trout and gaftop off of the same sunken refrigerator
Do you know what you call a person that is swimming in the Mississippi Sound? A tourist.
I once told that joke to Musgrove’s head of tourism and a few more staffers. The staffers laughed. The head of tourism did not.
Does anyone ever get in the water on the MS coast anyway? My college roommates were from Long Beach. They drove to Alabama to go to the beach.
We’d get in the water when I was little. Haven’t gotten in it in 25 years. I take my kids sometimes to just walk or do sand stuff. The boardwalk area is pretty neat when the homeless people don’t overtake it.
This has happened a couple times in recent memory. idk what it means other than we’ll stay even further away from the water
This has happened a couple times in recent memory. idk what it means other than we’ll stay even further away from the water
If you have a boat, the water is beautiful on the other side of the barrier islands. The locals know and they go hang out there.
$hits about to get real. If you’d grown up drinking from a green water hose, you’d be immune to anything in the gulf.
I have assumed that there was a Beach Advisory on the Mississippi Coast for my entire lifetime, but I am only 60 years old.
Parts have the warning removed
Do they not still have the ferry to Ship Island? That's where we went a few times when I stayed down there in the 80s.
I have wade fished, swam, eaten raw oysters from the sound my whole life and never gotten sick or gotten cancer or anything. I am 70yrs old and still wade fish the Ms beaches. My buddies will be down Sunday and will be wade fishing off the beaches.
Eat some imported catfish or tilapia and see where they come and have eaten.
I don’t saltwater catfish.
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The barrier islands trap the sediment from the Mississippi River in the sound, including the stretch of the river called Cancer Alley. Make of this what you will.
My wife and I go to the beach in ocean springs all day, one day each weekend as long as the weather is good and get in the water all the time.
Anytime you get lots of rain, this pops up. There's no need to get in the water, and it still looks the same.
Let me rephrase what I said earlier.
What I meant was, nobody gets in the water to swim/lounge like you would at AL/FL. Plenty of people get in the water, but it's fishing, etc. Water is dirty, but no more dangerous than any brackish water. Yeah it gets shlt in it from time to time when it rains a lot.
Bottom line is, MS Gulf Coast is a cool place to live, not to vacation. Locals get a boat and go to Ship Island. Any efforts to clean the water to the level of a Gulf Shores or Destin is simply a futile effort. You got two major rivers flowing right into you and converging, it's just what it is.
Pascagoula dumped about 500k gallons of raw sewage into the Pascagoula River a few days back: https://mississippitoday.org/2026/05/13/pascagoula-sewage-spill/