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These waters are yours.
Defend your way of Life.
Revive what we've lost.

We’ll know we are successful when no one has to question whether the fish are safe to eat or the water is safe to swim in, when our seagrasses and oyster reefs recover, and our coastal communities take responsibility for the health of the water.

Defend the waters of Coastal Alabama

Become a baykeeper to revive our waters and defend our way of life.

CURRENTS A Mobile Baykeeper publication

CURRENTS magazine tells the stories of Mobile Bay, the Delta, and the Gulf. And the people who call it home.

WHAT’S CURRENT

Required Reading

This article is from the spring 2025 edition of Mobile Baykeeper’s print quarterly, CURRENTS. The magazine is mailed to active members who have given more than $50 in the past year. To get on the magazine’s mailing list, donate here. By Nick Williams As the editor of a local print magazine in publication for nearly thirty […]

Silenced Sanctuary

An Elegy for a lost rookery.

Prichard Water – Community Meeting

Join us for a Community Meeting. Learn more about what’s going on with Prichard’s water utility and make your voice heard. There’s a lot going on in Prichard at the moment, including concerns over governance of its water system and chronic water quality issues. We need you to come out and make your voice heard. […]

They Call Him Droopy

Every Delta fisherman knows Droopy Williams. Or at least knows of him. You’ve probably seen him as you’ve zoomed along the Causeway – a sort of roving landmark, sometimes in the waters above, sometimes below.

Recipe: Roosters Mahi Tacos

Roosters Mahi Tacos

If These Walls Could Talk

The Martin Lindsey — Tate House, was built five miles from Mobile in 1915 by Martin Lindsey, owner of the Lindsey Lumber and Export Company.

A Dire Warning

Jared Sullivan’s Valley So Low recounts the 2008 coal-ash spill in Kingston, Tennessee.

Pioneers of the Party Boat

While the women sunbathed on the beach and wrangled the kids, the men concocted a wild idea on a whim: a floating screen porch, fully equipped with a bar and motor. Brilliant, right?

Heeding the Call

Alyssa and Sam Fuller’s love of the water drew them to each other — and to careers in the Coast Guard.

NextGen Baykeepers

Mobile Baykeeper believes that the NextGen Baykeepers education program will help us succeed in our vision by providing memorable experiences within local waterbodies for participants that will initiate a lifelong relationship with their environment, give them resources to understand the environmental challenges present, and encourage them to act as stewards of our natural resources.

Always A Sportsman: A Chat with Outdoors Writer Nick Williams

A member of Mobile Baykeeper’s Board of Directors and a regular contributor to CURRENTS, Nick shared his thoughts on what drew him to his work with Mobile Baykeeper.

Family Tradition

Chris Nelson at Bon Secour Fisheries reflects on decades in the seafood industry.

Southern Giants: An Interview with R. Scot Duncan on the Gulf Sturgeon

An Interview with R. Scot Duncan on the Gulf Sturgeon.

A Universal Language

Mobile sailor Michael Mark ventured to Cannes, France, to compete in the Finn European Masters sailing championship.

The Runamuck Inn: A Delta Tradition

For Theo Middleton, the Runamuck is a treasure that spans generations.

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SWIM

No one should have to question whether the water is safe to swim in.

EXPLORE ISSUES

Learn more about the issues threatening our waters and what we’re doing to defend and revive the waters of Coastal Alabama.