Red Tide Causes Large Fish Kill off Sanibel Island
Saturday, October 31st, 20092 major red tide blooms are cause for great concern in along the west coast of Florida.
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Red Tide Brings Large Fish Kill
Thursday, October 29th, 2009The red tide bloom in Texas is getting stronger.
There’s a fish kill or two in the Mustang island area (which on the northern end of South Padre Island, just south of Port Aransas. The main fish kill goes from just inside the inlet to a mile offshore according to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and various press sources.
It appears this red tide is getting stronger and bigger. The red tide testing network in Texas seems to be mostly visual, they think there’s a second bloom just inside the mouth of the Corpus Christi harbor.If they would take water samples from many different areas close by and in between these two HAB’s I suspect they would find that these two Harmful Algae Blooms are actually one. Just a theory and not one that matters most. More important is what they arwe doing to mitigate these red tide blooms and prevent more from aoccuring. Which sadly appears to be nothing! In fact I’ve on TWPD’s web site the same kinds of “mis-truths” that used to be told by similiar enties in Florida. People of Texas, please don’t let your treat you this way.
Red Tide Report for 10-18-2009
Sunday, October 18th, 2009Read our Red Tide Report page for updates. The bloom in Sarasota County is growing, but slowly.
The Red tide bloom down in Ft Myers Florida and Naples Florida is a totally different story! It’s increasing in strength and size rapidly. In fact there is either a brand new red tide bloom off Charlotte Harbor or the off Naples has spread all the way north to there.
These reports are coming from FWRI and are a week old. We’ve had big rain since then, which washes fertilizer from the farms into their river and then into the Gulf feeding the K. Brevis algae that make up red tide. However we’ve also had a cold front that’s bringing lower temperature which may cool the water and thus discourage this Harmful Algal bloom from growing.
Florida residents and tourists please feel free to comment below. Also we’d like to welcome the sudden influx of viewers from Texas and wish them the best with their recent red tide.
I also like to get some feed back from everyone about if I shuld dedicate a page to a Texas red Tide Report, just rename the Florida Red Tide report to theRed tide Report or just not include the information about red tides in Texas. Maine, other countries, etc. It is a lot to keep up with!