Sanibel Red Tide Report – 11-7-14
Sanibel Red Tide Status, November 7, 2014.
Sanibel Red Tide Report, Statewide Map, 11-7-14, Courtesy Of FWC.
Some red tide reported offshore of Sanibel & Captiva, but has mostly drifted southeast.
The fishing guides aren’t reporting any evidence of red tide inshore at this time.
“A patchy bloom of the Florida red tide organism, Karenia brevis, has been detected in southwest Florida. Karenia brevis concentrations range from background to medium in the Pine Island Sound system and offshore of Charlotte Harbor and Sanibel Island (Lee County). Low and medium concentrations have also been detected inshore and alongshore of southern Collier County.
Recent satellite images from the Optical Oceanography Laboratory at the University of South Florida show that bloom patches extend approximately 60 miles alongshore and up to 15 miles offshore, depending on location, between Lee and Collier counties. In addition, background concentrations of K. brevis were detected in one sample collected inshore of Gulf County in northwest Florida.
Other samples collected throughout Florida this week did not contain K. brevis.
Forecasts by the USF-FWC Collaboration for Prediction of Red Tides (CPR), a partnership between the University of South Florida’s College of Marine Science and the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission, project waters in the bloom area offshore of Sanibel Island to move slowly south over the next 3 days. Little movement of the patches offshore of Collier County is projected.
For more information, please see FWC.
