Water status

AM Paddle Surf... Crystal clear water again, turbidity has diminished greatly in the last week. Nirvana! Life Guard reported seeing a Manatee.

Oct 9th Red Tide status is:

SOUTHWEST COAST

Karenia brevis, the Florida red tide organism, was not detected in water samples collected this week alongshore of Manatee, Lee and Collier counties or offshore of Hillsborough, Sarasota, Charlotte and Monroe counties. A sample collected alongshore of Mullet Key (Pinellas County) and a sample collected offshore of Manatee County contained very low concentrations of K. brevis. One sample collected alongshore of Longboat Key, inside of Sarasota Bay (Sarasota County) and one sample collected at Gasparilla Fishing Pier (Charlotte County) also contained very low concentrations of K. brevis. A research cruise currently being conducted offshore of southwest Florida has detected levels of K. brevis ranging from background to low concentrations offshore of Lee and Collier counties, west and south of Sanibel Island. Discolored water alongshore of Redington Beach (Pinellas County) is due to a bloom of the cyanobacterium Trichodesmium erythraeum. No impacts have been reported from this bloom.

Visit http://research.myfwc.com/features/category_sub.asp?id=4434 for the Florida Red Tide Current Status Report and select the statewide summary or a region of interest for more information and sampling details.