Pinellas County officials say the area has not seen severe fish kills the last couple of days, but a Red Tide endures off the gulf beaches.
A bloom sits roughly between Pass-a-Grille and Honeymoon Island, according to a county update issued late Tuesday. Crews saw “brief improvements” over the weekend, Pinellas spokesman Tony Fabrizio wrote, but medium and high levels of the algae have been found in multiple locations.
Conditions “are still better than during the peak of the bloom,” Fabrizio wrote.
The toxic Red Tide has killed fish for more than a month around Tampa Bay. Pinellas has collected 1,687 tons of dead sea life and debris, nearly as much as the disastrous 2017-19 bloom.
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