‘They keep coming’
PHOTO PROVIDED BY ZOE BASS
Zoe Bass — who oversees Coastal Wildlife Club sea turtle patrols — photographed a goliath grouper Tuesday that washed up on Manasota Key. The fish was longer than the 3-foot stakes used to mark sea turtle nests.
SUN PHOTO BY STEVE REILLY, reilly@sun-herald.com
Judy Cacace, who lives aboard a sailboat at the Chadwick Cove Marina and Resort on Manasota Key, wears a mask due to the red tide and dead fish lapping the shoreline of Lemon Bay.
FILE PHOTO PROVIDED BY ZOE BASS
Zoe Bass — who oversees Coastal Wildlife Club sea turtle patrols — photographed a goliath grouper Oct. 9 that washed up on Manasota Key. The fish was longer than the 3-foot stakes used to mark sea turtle nests.
ENGLEWOOD — As if the stench and coughing caused by red tide algae is not enough, South Manasota Key property owners now are seeing dead fish drawn into Lemon Bay coves and marinas on the high tides.
“The fish started showing up Saturday,” said Pam Orozco of the Chadwick Cove Marina and Resort. Hundreds of fish floated up in the marina cove with the incoming tides from Stump Pass.
