Sanibel: Red Tide Status Midweek Update
Sanibel Red Tide Status Midweek Update, November 5, 2014.
The Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission released its midweek report.
The red tide bloom offshore seems to be on a southeast drift down the coast toward Naples.
Local Sanibel & Captiva fishing guides aren’t seeing any evidence of red tide near shore of Sanibel & Captiva.
“A bloom of the Florida red tide organism, Karenia brevis, has been detected in southwest Florida. Recent satellite images from the Optical Oceanography Laboratory at the University of South Florida show that patches extend approximately 40 miles alongshore and up to 35 miles offshore, depending on location, between Lee and northern Collier counties.
Karenia brevis concentrations range from background to medium in the offshore and alongshore areas, and in the Pine Island Sound system (Charlotte and Lee counties).
Other samples collected throughout Florida so far 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 offshore movement of surface waters and alongshore, southwest movement of bottom waters in the vicinity of the coastal bloom over the next 3 days.
A full report will be available by 5pm on Friday, November 7, 2014.”
For information, please see FWC.
