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Katherine Hubbard was off the Gulf Coast of Florida near Sarasota when dead and dying fish began to rise to the surface of the sea around the boat. She was collecting samples to analyze for an infamous type of algae scientists know asFor most of the morning the sea had been calm, but around noon dozens of the moribund fish — some as large as 14 inches — began to pop up as far as they could see.
“It’s a really interesting phenomenon to work on,” says Hubbard, director of Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s Center for Red Tide ResearchWhile red tide may seem terrible to beachgoers, or for the thousands of fish that wash up dead during a bloom, theform part of the native ecosystem, as far as scientists can tell.
While large blooms of the algae can be unpredictable, there is some degree of seasonality to them as well. The blooms usually start in late summer or fall, then disappear by late winter or spring in the Gulf and surrounding waters. But when large blooms occur, they can last all year — even into the timeframe when a new bloom season would normally begin.
More recently, the Gulf Coast experienced a bad bloom between 2017 and 2019, with a very large area of red tide and a lot of dead fish.
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