For months now, Fox 4 has been tracking the red tide from Sanibel down to Naples. And now this week, we have heard about reports of fish kills down the coastline.
Fox 4 Meteorologist Andrew Shipley spent the day on Sanibel taking water samples; to find out just how bad the red tide is on the island.
Tracking Red Tide Impacts on Sanibel
“For time of year, a Winter bloom, this kind of extreme,” said Dr. Rick Bartleson, a Research Scientist with the Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation.
When Shipley arrived on Sanibel it didn’t take him long to find the effects of the red tide. While you couldn’t smell it, there were dead fish along the shoreline…