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Red Tide

For centuries, toxic algal blooms have plagued Florida’s shores. Now a new outbreak of the microorganism Karenia brevis — better known as Red Tide — is plaguing Tampa Bay and the gulf beaches, killing marine life and threatening the region’s tourism industry.

Tampa Bay has Red Tide questions. Here are some answers.
Jul. 17, 2021• Environment
St. Petersburg city employees clean up a fish kill in Coffeepot Bayou as the Red Tide crisis continues in Tampa Bay.
Failure at Piney Point: Florida let environmental risk fester despite warnings
Apr. 17, 2021• Environment
A drone image shows a partially drained wastewater reservoir at Piney Point, with Tampa Bay visible in the distance.
Red Tide isn’t just bad for fish, as a Tampa Bay man learned in the ER
Aug. 3, 2021• Environment
Bill Sanders, 68, pictured on the dock behind his Tropical Shores home, has lost all hearing in his right ear. He was diagnosed with vestibular neuritis, which can remain dormant in the body for years. Red Tide was the most likely trigger, an ear, nose and throat specialist told him.
Is it safe to eat seafood in the Tampa Bay area during Red Tide?
Jul. 15, 2021• Food
A seafood case filled with grouper, snapper and tile fish at Wild Seafood at Johns Pass Boardwalk in Madeira Beach. Most of the local fish sold in restaurants and seafood markets is fished far offshore and safe to eat despite the ongoing Red Tide, experts say.
  1. For tourists on south Pinellas beaches, despite red tide, it’s better than home
    Mar. 11• Environment
    The beach off Indian Rocks Beach is flush with visitors despite the presence of red tide on Friday, Mar 10, 2023, off Pinellas County.
  2. Warm weather helped Florida manatees, but more winter deaths feared
    Jan. 13, 2022• Environment
    A record 1,101 manatees died in 2021 — the most deaths in a year since 830 manatees in 2013 — and officials have long feared that toll will grow this winter.
  5. A record 1,101 Florida manatees died in 2021. When will it end?
    Jan. 10, 2022• Environment
    A manatee swims at Hunter Spring Park on Kings Bay in Crystal River in 2021.
  6. 5 environmental stories that affected Tampa Bay in 2021 and what’s ahead in 2022
    Jan. 1, 2022• Environment
    Dead fish fill the end of a canal near St. Petersburg's Snell Isle Marina off Snell Island on July 16 as a Red Tide bloom persists on the Florida Gulf Coast.
  7. Florida will feed manatees emergency rations if starvation looms this winter
    Dec. 9, 2021• Environment
    Two dead adult manatees recovered from Brevard County are seen emaciated prior to necropsy at the state's Marine Mammal Pathobiology Lab in March.
  8. Florida seeks to scuttle environmentalists’ Piney Point lawsuit
    Dec. 7, 2021• Environment
    A drone image shows part of the Piney Point complex near Bradenton in April.
  9. It’s okay to fish redfish, snook and trout in Tampa Bay again
    Oct. 13, 2021• Environment
    A man fishes Monday off the rocky shore along the Clearwater Harbor from Sand Key Park in Clearwater.
  10. Red Tide is out there, but so far Pinellas, Pasco spared major fish kills
    Oct. 5, 2021• Environment
    An aerial drone photo of Sand Key looking north towards Indian Rocks Beach taken on Sept. 2.
  11. Red Tide is still floating out there and could return. But when?
    Aug. 27, 2021• Environment
    Dead fish lie on the sand at Indian Shores Beach in St. Petersburg on June 10. The massive fish kills have receded, but Red Tide is still floating off the Pinellas coast. Scientists say it's hard to forecast when it could return to afflict the shore.
  12. Hashtag Red Tide: TikTok is all over Tampa Bay’s environmental crisis
    Aug. 19, 2021• Environment
    Caulin Donaldson, 25, spends time at Indian Rocks Beach on July 28 recording video for his TikTok account @TrashCaulin as he documents the Red Tide crisis and resulting fish kills that have afflicted Tampa Bay's beaches and coastline. “The mission here is to let people know this is happening,” he said.
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