Venice Beach visitors started the new year coughing through beach celebrations on New Year’s Eve, as red tide made an unwelcome return to the Sarasota County coastline. Reports of respiratory ...

VENICE, Fla. — There were signs posted alerting beachgoers at Venice Beach in Sarasota County of the presence of red tide Thursday. That was about the only sign of the algae bloom out on the ...

Samples taken Friday show red tide is not present in Manatee County, although no new samples have been published for the area this week. The DOH-Sarasota cautions beach visitors about the ...

Last week, officials said they were seeing elevated concentrations of red tide at Turtle Beach, Nokomis Beach, North Jetty, Venice Beach, Service Club Park, Venice Fishing Pier, Brohard Beach, and ...

According to the latest Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission reports, low to zero red tide was present between Longboat Key Beach and the South Venice Beach Boat Ramp, so don’t ...

The beaches with elevated levels of red tide include Venice Beach, Service Club Park, Venice Fishing Pier, Brohard Beach, and Caspersen Beach, Manasota Key, and Blind Pass.

The worst of it looks like it’s on Venice Beach where high levels of red tide were detected by FWC. If you go to the beach where red tide is present, you may cough, sneeze or have your eyes burn.

Red tide that has lingered miles offshore from the Sarasota and Manatee ... Lido Casino Beach, Siesta Key Beach, Turtle Beach, Nokomis Beach, North Jetty Beach, Venice Beach, Service Club ...

Red tide is a type of harmful algal bloom (HAB), an overgrowth of toxic algae that can harm people, animals, and the environment. Such toxins can kill fish and make shellfish dangerous to eat.

Due to elevated counts of red tide from Monday's beach water samples, the DOH-Sarasota said it will post signage at several beaches to advise the public that red tide is present. The following ...

VENICE — Tourists weren't scattered on Venice Beach Wednesday morning, but hundreds of dead fish were. Visitors piled into the parking lot, got out of their cars, started hacking, coughing and ...

The only exception was Madeira Beach, which had “medium” levels, or 100,000 red tide-causing Karenia brevis cells per liter. Fish kills and breathing issues are possible at that level. But ...