Sanibel: Red Tide Status Midweek Update
Sanibel Red Tide Status Midweek Update, November 19, 2014.
The Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission released its midweek report.
There are no red tide issues for Sanibel & Captiva at this time.
The red tide bloom offshore continues be on a southeast drift down the coast toward Naples.
Midweek Red Tide Update (November 19, 2014)
“A bloom of the Florida red tide organism, Karenia brevis, persists in southwest Florida. Recent satellite images from the Optical Oceanography Laboratory at the University of South Florida show that patches extend approximately 50 miles alongshore and up to 35 miles offshore, depending on location, between Collier and Monroe counties. In the last week, Karenia brevis concentrations have ranged from background to high alongshore and offshore of Lee, Collier, and Monroe counties. In Pine Island Sound (Lee County), background to very low concentrations have been detected.
Bloom concentrations were not detected in samples collected alongshore or offshore of Okaloosa, Bay, Franklin, Hernando, Pinellas, Sarasota, Charlotte, Brevard, and Flagler counties or the Florida Keys (Monroe County).
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 slow movement of the bloom towards the south over the next 3 days.
A full report will be available by 5pm on Friday, November 21, 2014.”
For information, please see FWC.
