Red Tide Florida Solutions
This is the "Florida Red Tide Solutions" website. To see the main section of our web site please just click the image above. Inside you'll find a wealth of information about Florida's Red Tide. We have been covering red tide in Florida for many years, since 2006, the first year of a two year long red tide outbreak. since then we haven't had a red tide so large, intense or long lasting, but we had had several red tides and several other harmful algal blooms.
It was natural for us to branch out and also cover red tides in other states like Texas, and any other state along the Gulf of Mexico. But then red tides and other Harmful algal blooms became a reoccurring problem for other states like Maine and California. So we covered them too, even though it isn't the same species of Algae (Karenia Brevis).
Then there was the BP Oil Spill it wasn't red tide but we just had to cover that too.
Fighting Red Tide
One of the toughest things to swallow is that we know what causes red tide, how to make a red tide bloom go away (mitigate) and how to prevent it. Other countries around have had problems with unnaturally frequent and intense red tides. The overwhelming majority of them use a combination of prevention and mitigation to preserve their natural resources. Sadly this isn't the case in Florida. While several counties along the Gulf coast of Florida have recently taken steps to help prevent red tide, the only advances the state of Florida has made is to stop saying that Red Tide isn't a problem. In fact, at the time of this writing, there's an ongoing effort by the State of Florida to stop the counties that are trying to prevent red tide from doing so. We report on these things as well.
How to Help
Red Tide Florida Solutions has been very successful since it's inception at raising awareness about red tide. It's also played a major role in several federal grants coming to Florida to help with red tide problem. Sadly almost all of these funds have been diverted to many things related to red tide but none has been spent on the things these grants were ear marked for, researching the causes, mitigation and prevention of red tide. If you wish to help, we certainly could use it. We need donations, research and help promoting this web site. A simple click of the Facebook "Like" button is helpful. A link to our website from your own web site even more so.
