IRLNews:2020/09/15/Indian River lagoon is pea-soup green, raising fears of another 'bloom of doom'
From Indian River Lagoon Project
Indian River lagoon is pea-soup green, raising fears of another 'bloom of doom'
September 10, 2020
Cocoa - Brown tide has devastated the lagoon ecosystem in the past several years, first blooming here in 2012 and then almost every year since then. The algae is so small that it would take 200 to stretch across the period at the end of this sentence. The same brown tide species hit Laguna Madre and Baffin Bay along Texas' Gulf Coast in the early 1990s, killing off seagrass for years. The bloom lasted almost eight years, making it the longest continuous harmful algae bloom ever recorded.
https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/environment/lagoon/2020/09/10/indian-river-lagoon-green-algae-raising-risk-big-fish-kill/5744718002/
