Jay Gunter with DRC Emergency Services was contracted to help clear fish from canals and waterways. This bloom is patchy and moving north, while wind direction also plays a big role in how strong the effects are on shore. Experts say this bloom is patchy and every beach is different /yIcc3QBeJYĪccording to Hubbard, that doesn’t mean dead fish will be on every beach. There’s a number of dead fish on the beach and a strong irritating smell in the area. The worst of it is from Redington Beach to Clearwater Pass. Please like our page and learn interesting facts concerning red tide and other harmful algal blooms in Florida.We’ve been tracking the red tide bloom in Pinellas County. The FWRI HAB group in conjunction with Mote Marine Laboratory now have a facebook page. Archived status maps can also be found on Flickr. To learn more about various organisms that have been known to cause algal blooms in Florida waters, see the FWRI Red Tide Flickr page. The website also provides links to additional information related to the topic of Florida red tide including satellite imagery, experimental red tide forecasts, shellfish harvesting areas, the FWC Fish Kill Hotline, the Florida Poison Information Center (to report human health effects related to exposure to red tide), and other wildlife related hotlines. This information, including maps and reports with additional details, is also available on the FWRI Red Tide website. For more information on algal blooms and water quality, please visit Protecting Florida Together.
Please check our daily sampling map, which can be accessed via the online status report on our Red Tide Current Status page. The next complete status report will be issued on Friday, August 6 th. Status updates and results are posted on the Protecting Florida Together website ( / PineyPointUpdate) and on the Tampa Bay Estuary Program website ( point/). įorecasts by the USF-FWC Collaboration for Prediction of Red Tides for Pinellas to northern Monroe counties predict south-southeastern movement of surface and subsurface waters in most areas over the next 3.5 days.įWC-FWRI is working closely with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) and other partners on the Piney Point response effort. Additional details are provided in the Southwest Coast and Northwest Coast reports and for current information, please visit. Respiratory irritation suspected to be related to red tide was reported over the past week on Florida’s Gulf Coast in Pasco, Pinellas, Manatee, Sarasota, and Lee counties. For more details, please visit: saltwater/health/fish-kills- hotline/. On Florida’s Gulf Coast, fish kills suspected to be related to red tide were reported in Hernando, Pasco, Pinellas, Hillsborough, Manatee, Sarasota, Charlotte, Lee, and Collier counties over the past week. Along the Florida East Coast over the past week, K. brevis was not observed.In Northwest Florida over the past week, K. brevis was observed at background concentrations offshore of Levy County, low concentrations offshore of Citrus County, very low to low concentrations offshore of Hernando County, and background to medium concentrations in and offshore of Pasco County.In Southwest Florida over the past week, K. brevis was observed at background to high concentrations in and offshore of Pinellas County, low to high concentrations in Manatee County, low to high concentrations in Sarasota County, medium to high concentrations in Charlotte County, background to medium concentrations in and offshore of Lee County, and background to very low concentrations in Collier County.Bloom concentrations (>100,000 cells/liter) were observed in 70 samples: seven from Pasco County, 24 from Pinellas County, six from Manatee County, 27 from Sarasota County, four from Charlotte County, and 2 from Lee County. Conditions remain improved in other areas of Tampa Bay relative to prior weeks. A bloom of the red tide organism, Karenia brevis, persists on the Florida Gulf Coast and in Lower Tampa Bay.
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