red tide

BFAR confirmed that the seawater of Cancabato Bay here tested positive for red tide toxins.

The red tide alert, however, had been lifted in the coastal waters of Balite Bay in Davao Oriental province, according to a BFAR bulletin.

BFAR Eastern Visayas Director Juan Albaladejo said water samples collected from the bays were positive of Pyrodinium bahamense variety compressum, a toxic microorganism that causes paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) or red tide.

But when he came across research linking climate change to red tide, he realized this was an issue that was already impacting us.

Moreover, the BFAR's Shellfish Bulletin 1, released by the Information and Fisherfolk Coordination Unit has added Cancabato Bay, Tacloban City in Leyte among areas that are positive for red tide toxin.

As regards red tide, an official statement from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is that fish caught for consumption from waters where red tide is present should be filleted and the skin taken off.

"People come here to be on the beaches and they don't want to be coming down here to be exposed to red tide or sewage spills or whatnot, ...

3, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Red tide may be the reason why some beachgoers on Florida's Atlantic coast have suffered breathing problems, according to Palm Beach County officials.

Muscat: Diam has refuted rumors that the water supply will be hit in some governorates due to the red tide in Barka, the authority said in a statement on Sunday.

Vince Lovko, a phytoplantkon ecologist at Mote Marine Lab, crisscrossed the waters off Longboat Key in his lab's Yellowfin fishing boat with a crew of researchers, sampling sea water from a red tide that has slushed around Southwest Florida for nearly a year and littered beaches with dead manatees, sea turtles and rotting marine life.

Florida Governor Rick Scott has declared a state of emergency in response to the impacts of red tide in Collier, Lee, Charlotte, Sarasota, Manatee, Hillsborough and Pinellas counties.

Muscat, Feb.26 (ONA) The SCADA Center reported that the main emergency committee in the Public Authority for Electricity and Water (Diam) is monitoring the situation of the red tide in the sea in the Wilayat of Barka, where the production of the desalination units continues to be affected by the phenomenon of this tide.

The Public Authority for Electricity and Water (Diam) has called on residents of the wilayat of Seeb in Muscat governorate and Dakhliyah governorate to rationalise water consumption due to red tide.