Red tide no longer detected off Franklin County coast

State officials say they are no longer detecting red tide off the coast of Franklin County.

The organism was detected in very low concentrations last week off one location on St. George Island.

This week red tide was not detected in samples analyzed in and alongshore of Bay, Gulf, Franklin, Wakulla, Taylor, Dixie, Levy, or Pasco counties. 

In southwest Florida, several samples collected in and alongshore of Charlotte and Lee counties contained background to low concentrations of red tide.

State officials have been monitoring a patchy bloom of red tide in the northeast Gulf of Mexico for weeks.

Red Tide is a organism that in large enough concentrations releases a neurotoxin that can kill fish and even affect humans.

It was last seen in Franklin County in 2005, when it closed the Apalachicola bay to oyster harvesting for close to 6 months.

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