Key opinion today to affect water-sharing plan

An important opinion will be given today by officials with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It involves how a proposed plan to keep more water in Georgia during times of drought might affect four downstream species in the Apalachicola Bay. Florida officials earlier had filed a letter voicing their opposition to the water-sharing plan. Florida environmental officials say the plan would decimate oyster populations, threaten mussel species and make it harder for sturgeon to spawn in the downstream waters.