Florida Red Tide Update, Mid-week, 9-10-14.
No Red Tide Near Sanibel & Captiva, 9-13-14
There are no red tide conditions anywhere near Sanibel & Captiva. Some significant presence off the coast of Dixie and Pinellas Counties.
Here are the current red tide conditions from yesterday’s 9-12-14 Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission red tide report.
Red Tide Summary (September 12, 2014)
A patchy bloom of Karenia brevis, the Florida red tide organism, continues in the northeast Gulf of Mexico. Satellite images from the Optical Oceanography Laboratory at the University of South Florida show a surface bloom approximately 5 to 15 miles offshore between Dixie and northern Pinellas counties and less than 3 miles offshore of Cedar Key (Levy County). Concentrations in these areas range from background to medium.
Karenia brevis was not detected alongshore of Franklin, Wakulla, Taylor, Manatee, Charlotte, and Lee counties, or offshore of Escambia and Monroe counties. No samples were analyzed this week from Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton, Bay, or Jefferson counties in northwest Florida. Additional samples analyzed throughout Florida this week did not contain Karenia brevis except for one sample collected alongshore of Sarasota County that contained background concentrations of K. brevis.
For more information, please see the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission Site.
