Over the past week, red tide was detected in two samples collected from Florida’s Gulf Coast.
We continue to use chlorophyll satellite imagery (USF, NOAA NCCOS) to help track nearshore and offshore conditions, and the patches of elevated surface chlorophyll that we have been following over the past few months appear to have dissipated (see Southwest Florida map in the link below). We will continue to monitor this closely.
Additional details are provided below.
- In Southwest Florida over the past week, K. brevis was observed at background concentrations in one sample collected from Pinellas County.
- In Northwest Florida over the past week, K. brevis was observed at background concentrations in one sample collected from Gulf County.
- Along the Florida East Coast over the past week, K. brevis was not observed.
Fish kills suspected to be related to red tide were reported to FWC’s Fish Kill Hotline and other partners over the past week for Southwest Florida in Sarasota County…