Harmless red algae blooms showing up on Puget Sound
May 18 2013 in Environment, Slider by Deborah Bach

If you see a red-orange bloom on the water while boating on Puget Sound, don’t worry. The Washington Department of Ecology says it has received laboratory confirmations that several of the tomato soup-colored blooms showing up on Puget Sound are harmless to people and are not the so-called “red tide” that refers to paralytic shellfish [...]






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