# @tampabaytimes on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CRceShCB6fX
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/8259922-tampabaytimes-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-07-17T22:22:35.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Tampa Bay Times (@tampabaytimes) — https://gondola.cc/tampabaytimes

## Caption

For centuries, it has plagued Florida’s Gulf Coast. Now, it has returned to Tampa Bay to afflict everything it touches: the ecosystem, the economy, people’s livelihoods and their health, and especially the waters of the bay itself as it kills hundreds of tons of sea life.⁠
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This year, scientists say, the Red Tide is almost certainly finding more fuel because of a singular manmade catastrophe: 215 million gallons of polluted water was dumped into the bay this spring from the old Piney Point fertilizer plant in Manatee County. That’s not its only source, though.⁠
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So what is Red Tide anyway? When will this current outbreak let up?⁠
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Click the link in our bio for a Q&A with experts.⁠
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These are a few recent fish kill and cleanup scenes from Fort De Soto Park (photos 1-5) and along St. Pete's bay shores (photos 6-10).⁠⁠
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📷 : @abaderphoto and @lsantanaphoto / Tampa Bay Times

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| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
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| Tampa Bay Times | @tampabaytimes | https://gondola.cc/tampabaytimes | Newspaper |
| Arielle Bader | @ArielleBader | https://gondola.cc/ArielleBader | Photographer |

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