Not much time to talk about Florida Red Tide today folks but I absolutley had to share this news with all of you:
“The Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego has discovered that RCA bacteria—a natural marine microbe—can attack and kill the single-cell plankton that produce red tide algae.”
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The Sierra Club is hosting a Red Tide Forum this Thursday, 2pm, at the Manatee Community College campus in Venice, in the Selby Room at the Professional Development Center of the campus.
Topics covered will be Red Tide, fertilizers and water resources.
Larry Brand, a professor of marine biology at the University of Miami will be the [...]
This post is for Doctors and Vets who have the need to treat people or animals with symptoms of exposure to Red Tide.
Red Tide Health Effects and Treatment Options
The casual reader will find the attached document a bit much to read. However I will try to summarize accurately.
This is yet another response to those who say there is no way known to stop a red tide bloom. There are many, here’s one that’s been proven to work and be environmentally safe. It’s been used in Asia for decades.
In general I beleive that breeding one species of life to control another is usually a bad idea. But the typical human in me always asks “what could be the harm?” usually I come with an answer, right away. For instance - the greatest harm is usually the new species becomes [...]