This information, including maps and reports with additional details, is also available on the FWRI Red Tide website. For more information on algal blooms and water quality, please visit Protecting Florida Together. The next complete status report will be issued on April 2nd. Please check our daily sampling map, which can be accessed via the online status report on our Red Tide Current Status page. įorecasts by the USF-FWC Collaboration for Prediction of Red Tides for Pinellas to northern Monroe counties predict net northern transport of surface waters and minimal net movement of subsurface waters in most areas over the next four days. Additional details are provided in the Southwest Coast report and for current information, please visit. Respiratory irritation was reported over the past week in Southwest Florida in Lee and Collier counties. brevis was not observed.Ī fish kill suspected to be related to red tide was reported over the past week in Lee County.
Whenever Red Tide cells are present in nearby waters, the possibility of a bloom intensifying or moving along the beaches (or, less likely, into Tampa Bay proper) is always there.Red Tide and Fish Kills Reported by FWC in Charlotte Harbor and South into Captiva Island “If I lived on Anna Maria Island, closer to the higher concentration Red Tide bloom down south, I would probably feel differently. “Am I worried? As a resident on the bayside of Pinellas County, not so much - but I am keeping an eye on things and doing my part to reduce my family’s nutrient footprint,” Burke wrote in an email. There have been no instances of Red Tide blooms at any of those locations so far. The county is currently monitoring for Red Tide from Fort De Soto northward at 11 different sites, according to spokesperson Tony Fabrizio. Or at least pay attention to those who are, like Pinellas County’s environmental management team. That’s why the public should keep a close eye on current conditions. “Whether or not Tampa Bay will get affected will be dependent on future wind conditions (wind direction and strength) and currents, which we don’t have the ability to forecast that far in the future.” “The conditions in the Gulf of Mexico currently support Red Tide growth and intensification,” Krimsky wrote in an email.
Those include 32 samples in and offshore of Sarasota County, 10 in Lee County, two in Charlotte and one in both Manatee and Collier counties, according to state data. Harmful levels of Red Tide (which contain at least 100,000 karenia brevis cells per liter) were documented in 46 samples over the past week.
Still, the situation to the south is more serious, especially near where Hurricane Ian made landfall in September.
If Red Tide expands into Tampa Bay over the next few days or weeks, it may not be as bad as those extreme events, Liu said. For instance, some of the worst Red Tide events, like in 2018 and last year, usually peak in the late summer and early fall months. The question of whether the public should be concerned is an easier question to answer than whether it will get worse. Here’s another way to look at what those measurements mean: Red Tide “was not a serious issue” for the bay on Monday when the samples were taken, Liu said, but there’s a chance it could worsen with time.
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