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Hundreds of dead fish affected by the red tide float in St. Petersburg. (Courthouse News photo / Alex Pickett)
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (CN) A salty, rotten stench of death hung in the air as Don Bennett walked along a seawall in downtown St. Petersburg on Florida’s Gulf Coast. The 63-year-old smoked a cigarette and gazed out on Tampa Bay where tons of dead fish literally thousands upon thousands of pounds of carcasses bobbed in the water.
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