Monday, September 10, 2018
Florida Toxic Red Tide- Kayla Watts
A toxic red tide reached the Tampa Bay area, killing hundreds of thousands of fish. Many reports came in about the massive amounts of fish killed covering 20 miles. The toxic red tide has plagued areas around Florida’s beaches for months. It has killed many sea life and has sickening the people around that visit and live there. Many popular beaches in the Tampa Bay area like the Madeira Beach, Redington Becah, and Treasure Island have been impacted. The Pinellas County employees worked this past weekend cleaning most up. All the employees are taking all the fish to the landfill. Many dead fish are still floating offshore, but the community is helping to gather all.
Source: https://www.newsweek.com/florida-red-tide-update-toxic-tide-move-tampa-bay-killing-fish-masses-1113020
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The red tide is so scary and worrying! I can only hope that the cause was not pollution, and instead is a natural occurrence.
ReplyDeleteThe red tide has been looming over the Tampa Bay community and their ecosystem for too many months, I wonder if there is anything that could be done to try and stop the effects of the problem hand?- Fiona Graybill
ReplyDeleteI'm not a huge fan of seafood, but hearing about something like this is still incredibly devastating knowing just how much havoc a red tide wrecks on both the ecosystem itself and the people living near it. It's great to see the community rallying around cleaning up the beaches.
ReplyDeleteThe Red Tide is very worrying to me, because during the summer I got to see it first hand and the effects it had on our fishing about 15 miles offshore when I was sailing through the area. It is a major problem and could impact our sea life in a devastating manner.
ReplyDeleteWhat is The Red Tide, Ive never heard of it before?
ReplyDeleteChloe Meinershagen - This is the reason I'm so tentative to eat sea food, the Red Tide is horrible and scary. I've seen videos of people who have gotten asthma simply because they were running on the beach during a very condensed amount of pollution affecting the nearby tide. How absolutely awful! I hope we as a people can figure out a way to condense the amount of pollution in the ocean. We're killing everything, animals, coral, and even ourselves!
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