Red Tide Status Report 10/17/2014

(Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Web page.) Red Tide Status Update: Karenia brevis, the Florida red tide organism, was not detected this week in or alongshore of Escambia, Gulf, Wakulla, Taylor, Dixie, Levy, and Pasco counties.  One sample collected inshore of Bay County contained background concentrations of K. bre vis and another collected alongshore of Franklin County contained very low concentrations. In addition, one sample collected alongshore of Pinellas County contained background concentrations of K. brevis and one sample collected alongshore of Charlotte County contained very low concentrations. Additional samples collected throughout Florida this week did not contain K. brevis. 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 organismPyrodinium bahamense. Satellite images from the Optical Oceanography Laboratory at the University of South Florida show patches of high algae concentrations offshore of Franklin, Wakulla, Taylor, Dixie, Levy, and Citrus 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 S movement of surface waters and S/SE movement of bottom waters in the northeast Gulf of Mexico over the next 3 days.

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