Sanibel & Captiva Islands Red Tide Report, 9-19-14: No Red Tide
No Red Tide Near Shore Of Sanibel & Captiva, 9-19-14
There are no red tide conditions near Sanibel & Captiva. Some significant presence off the coast of Dixie and Pinellas Counties.
Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission Red Tide Summary (September 19, 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 35 miles offshore, dependent on location, between Taylor and Pasco counties, and less than 3 miles offshore of Cedar Key (Levy County). Concentrations of the red tide organism in these areas range from background to medium.
Karenia brevis was not detected in, along, or offshore of Walton, Bay, Franklin, Escambia, Pinellas, Manatee, Sarasota, Charlotte, Lee, Collier, or Monroe counties. No samples were analyzed this week from Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Gulf, Wakulla, Jefferson, Taylor, Citrus, or Pasco counties. Additional samples analyzed throughout Florida this week did not contain Karenia brevis.
Aerial and boat surveys by FWC staff along the west coast of Florida over the past week, in conjunction with the Coast Guard Auxiliary, have revealed blooms of the colonial cyanobacterium Trichodesmium spp. approximately 1 to 5 miles offshore of Clearwater Beach (Pinellas County) south to Sanibel Island (Lee County) and offshore in the current red tide bloom areas.”
For more information, please see today’s 9-19-14 Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission red tide report.
