State officials say they have detected very low
concentrations of red tide from one sampling location in Franklin County.
The organism
was detected at a sampling location on the gulf side of St. George Island.
State
officials have been monitoring a patchy bloom of red tide in the northeast
Gulf of Mexico for weeks.
Satellite
images issued on Wednesday from the Optical
Oceanography Laboratory at the University of South Florida show
patches offshore of Franklin, Wakulla, Taylor Dixie, and Levy counties.
The only near
shore report was from the one sampling site in Franklin County.
A full report will be available on Friday.
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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