Florida Red Tide Solutions

The Red Tide bloom in north west Florida may be being fed by nutrients from the Mississippi river. Researchers led by Richard P. Stumpf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have concluded that nutrients are pushed by seasonal winds in the fall from the Missippi river to the west coast of Florida and feed red tide blooms.

Given the lack of credibility of federal funded scientistsand the fact that this would mean that these red tide blooms would happen every year, more often closer to the Mississippi, which is exactly the opposite of the pattern of what happens.

Florida Red Tide Blooms actually start in the early summer right outside the highly populated spots of Florida’s coast. The further south the more intense the bloom (usually). It’s very rare for there ever to be red tide blooms anywhere near the Mississippi.
It sounds completely plausible to this humble editor that this theory contributes a little to our Florida Red Tide problem, but not much. The Nutrients red tide feed on are obviously coming from the locations where these red tide blooms are appearing.

I did learn something new about red tide, (K Brevis). “Karenia can swim up and down in the water, allowing them to feed on deep nutrients and then can come to the surface for light, forming the toxic blooms . . . ”

Learn something new all the time. I also learned that instead of learning new methods or improving exsisting methods of red tide mitigation they are just looking to predict it better:

“Now that they have found the algae congregating below the surface, scientists are experimenting with an underwater mechanism to detect the blooms before they come to the surface.”

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