Warning that a special master's recommendation would "spell doom" for the Apalachicola River, Florida wants the U.S. Supreme Court to require Georgia to share more water in a river system that links the two states.

Florida filed a 65-page brief Monday asking the Supreme Court to reject a December recommendation by Special Master Paul Kelly, who said Florida has not adequately shown that Georgia's water use caused problems in the Apalachicola River and Apalachicola Bay.

In the brief, Florida attorneys attacked Kelly's findings and said Apalachicola Bay, and its iconic oyster industry, suffered from not enough water flowing south in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river system. The brief argued that "Georgia's insatiable upstream consumption [of water] has decimated Apalachicola's oyster fisheries."