Midweek Red Tide Update 10-15-14

Midweek Red Tide Status Update: Karenia brevis, the Florida red tide organism, was not detected this week in or alongshore of Bay, Gulf, Wakulla, Dixie, Levy, and Pasco counties

.  One sample collected alongshore of Franklin County contained very low concentrations of K. brevis. Satellite images from the Optical Oceanography Laboratory at the University of South Florida show high algae concentrations offshore of Franklin, Wakulla, Taylor, Dixie, and Levy counties.

Forecasts by the USF-FWC Collaboration for Prediction of Red Tides (CPR), a partnership between the University of South Florida’s College of Marine Science and the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission, project surface and bottom waters in the northeast Gulf of Mexico to move S/SE over the next 3 days.  

A full report will be available by 5pm on Friday, October 17, 2014.

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