Red Tide update

East Coast
Karenia brevis, the Florida red tide organism, was not detected in water samples collected this week offshore of Volusia County.

Discolored water reported in the Indian and Banana Rivers for the past several weeks (Brevard County) is from a continuing bloom of the prasinophyte Nephroselmis species. No impacts have been reported.


Northwest Coast
Karenia brevis, the Florida red tide organism, was not detected in water samples collected this week alongshore of Levy and Pasco counties.


Southwest Coast
Karenia brevis, the Florida red tide organism, was not detected in water samples collected this week alongshore of Pinellas, Hillsborough, Sarasota, Charlotte, Lee and Collier counties or offshore of Pinellas and Manatee counties. One sample collected alongshore of Manatee County contained background concentrations of K. brevis.


You can access this week’s interactive Google Map in the attached file.

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