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 samples collected this week alongshore of Dixie and Levy counties or offshore of Hernando County.
Southwest Coast
Karenia brevis, the Florida red tide organism, was not detected in water samples collected this week alongshore of Pinellas, Hillsborough, Manatee, Charlotte, Lee and Collier counties or offshore of Pinellas County and the Florida Keys (Monroe County). Two samples collected alongshore of Sarasota County (out of 25 total samples) and one sample collected offshore of Sarasota County each contained background concentrations of K. brevis.
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