Dead fish littered many Sarasota and Manatee County beaches into Presidents Day as red tide offshore of Southwest Florida ...

Red tide blooming near Florida Gulf coast beaches has drifted closer to County over the past week, but beach impacts are ...

Red tide is causing fish kills and respiratory irritation at some Florida beaches, but are Sarasota and Manatee area beaches ...

The latest counts from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, or FWC, show background to moderate levels along the Lee and Collier coastlines.

Here are a series of red tide questions that have blanketed social media in recent weeks ... but easterly winds this year have, for the most part, kept the thickest part of the bloom just offshore.

Red tide is still bloom along the Florida Gulf ... satellite imagery findings and Mote Marine reports, but the most recent results available as of Monday were from Feb. 3 and 7.

The most recent water samples, collected on Feb. 10, showed medium levels of red tide at Blind Pass Beach in south Sarasota County and Boca Grande Pass in Lee County near the Charlotte County line.

The Lee County area is the hot spot now, according to recent state reports, which show high toxicity counts here. Fish and marine mammal kills can start once levels reach 10,000 cells per liter.

Red tide is caused by a harmful algae bloom. It can bring respiratory problems and even fish kills in high concentrations.

Here is a series of red tide questions that have blanketed social media in recent weeks. The organism that causes red tide occurs naturally at background levels in the Gulf, but various research ...