The Effects of the 1971 Spring Summer Red Tide on Mid-Eastern Gulf of Mexico Patch Reef Communities

Fertilizer is prime algae food in a lot of places where fertilizer is used extensively and that's just like prime algae food i love it oh so then does that feed algae that can block the sunlight for that seagrass yes yes exactly or it can feed algae that produce toxins that can result in fish kills and even shellfish kills one of the reasons why we have such a declining basgout population was from some really really big brown and red tides that came through in the 70s. A big red tide event like that sounds a little bit like our apocalypse movies but on shore it can look a little like spring break, he says.

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