Red Tide Status 10-3-14

(Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Web page.) A patchy bloom of Karenia brevis, the Florida red tide organism, continues in the northeast Gulf of Mexico. Satellite images from the Optical Oceanography Laboratory at the University of South Florida show patches offshore of Franklin, Wakulla, Taylor, and Citrus counties and alongshore of Taylor, Dixie, and Levy counties. Concentrations of the red tide organism in these areas range from background to high. Additional samples analyzed throughout Florida this week did not contain Karenia brevis. 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, show little movement of the red tide patches alongshore of Taylor, Dixie and Levy counties, and slow W/NW movement of the patches located offshore between Franklin and Citrus counties over the next three days. FWC has received multiple reports of fish kills and reports of discolored water over the past month in the Indian River Lagoon system. Sampling has revealed bloom concentrations of the organism Pyrodinium bahamense.

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