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Veronica Neumann slid the blade of her shucking knife into the back of a Chesapeake Blue Point oyster. With a crack and a slosh and few twists of her wrist, the oyster broke loose. A briny smell lofted through her storefront. “That’s good stuff,” Neumann said. Soon, the gooey insides of this oyster, and hundreds others, would be slurped up by the patrons of Hookin’ Ain’t Easy, a seafood eatery .
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Red tide has been causing problems around Pinellas for the last few weeks, but nothing as bad as conditions experienced after Hurricane Elsa passed offshore July 6-7.
Pinellas County staff as well as Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission reports that red tide in concentrations ranging from high to low have been found in recent water samples along Pinellas Countyâs beaches, the Intracoastal Waterway and Tampa Bay.
Dead fish continue to be a big problem. Staff says the countyâs contractor is using 16 vessels to try to scoop up the dead fish before they get to shore. As of July 15, crews had removed 902 tons of red-tide related debris.
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has been reporting a patchy bloom of the red tide organism, Karenia brevis, for the past several weeks. Concentrations in Pinellas had not been