Friday, June 17, 2011

6.17.11 Red Tide Report


East Coast
Karenia brevis, the Florida red tide organism, was not detected in water samples collected this week in the Indian River Lagoon (Brevard County) or offshore of Volusia County.
 
Discolored water reported in the Indian and Banana Rivers (Brevard County) for the past several weeks (first reported 05/13/2011) is from a continuing bloom of the prasinophyteNephroselmis. No effects of this bloom have been reported.
 
 
Northwest Coast
Karenia brevis, the Florida red tide organism, was not detected in a water sample collected this week alongshore of Citrus County.
 
 
Southwest Coast
Karenia brevis, the Florida red tide organism, was not detected in water samples collected this week alongshore of Manatee, Charlotte, Lee and Collier counties or offshore of Lee County. One sample collected alongshore and one offshore of Pinellas County and one sample collected inshore of Sarasota County each contained background concentrations of K. brevis.

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