14-03-2025
Jubilees in Mobile Bay — why they happen
FAIRHOPE, Ala. (WKRG) — The natural phenomenon where fish and shellfish gather at the shoreline, called a Jubilee, only occurs in two places, Tokyo and Mobile Bay.
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'I've done a lot of fishing and things before, and I have never seen anything like it,' Fairhope resident, Bill Bingham said.
The science behind the amazing sight is quite simple — Mobile Bay is typically extremely still water.
'Particularly, in the summertime, the water gets very hot,' Dauphin Island Sea Lab Senior Marine Scientist Brian Dzwonkowski said. 'The hotter the water is, the less oxygen the water can hold.'
The waves closer to the shoreline mix in the oxygen those sea critters are looking for.
'So, if they go right up to that edge, they can get a little bit of dissolved oxygen,' Dzwonkowski said.
Making an amazing lifelong memory for those who get to see the Jubilee.
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'We took our three boys and got them up early in the morning because we heard it was happening went down, and they wadded in with their tennis shoes on,' Bingham said. 'They took their eels back to play with their sisters who were still in bed, and that got everybody up early to go to school.'
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