Archive | November, 2006

Red Tide Dissipating all over Florida!

30 November 2006

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The Red Tide in Florida seems to have all but dissipated all over Florida! This is great news! Don’t let it go to your head. This just means that, while this years red tide was pretty extreme, it’s not as bad as last years red tide which lasted through the winter (highly unnatural). The weather [...]

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Red Tide causing Key’s Bird illness?

9 November 2006

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Some Lower Keys birds have been getting sick, and their symptoms are consistent with brevetoxicosis, a disease caused by ingesting fish affected by red tide, authorities say. Brevetoxicosis occurs when red-tide algae (brevetoxin) accumulates in the intestines of fish, which are in turn eaten by shorebirds. Red tide is further up north on the west [...]

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World seafood supply could run out by 2048

9 November 2006

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Leave it to the Florida Red Tide Coalition to find you the news that buried deep in the newspapers when it should be on the first page. Here’s a gem that’s been buried in the A section of all the best newspapers. I kinder consider the possibility of all humans running out of such a [...]

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Beach Closure for Red Tide?

6 November 2006

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Apparently not here in Florida but today we bring you another example of beaches being closed because of red tide. Only in this example there was an investigation as to why a beach with red tide in Australia. Of course what they call red tide in Australia is different than the Florida red tide, there’s [...]

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Sculpture from a Florida Red Tide Fish Kill?

5 November 2006

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A local, Englewood Florida artist has turned the carcasses of fish killed by a Florida Red Tide into a sculpture. Norine Shelley is the artist from Englewood Florida that has created a sculpture made from, at least partially, the bones of fish that were washed ashore along many southwest Florida beaches after being killed a [...]

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