OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — An unprecedented red tide in the San Francisco Bay Area is killing thousands of fish and other marine life whose carcasses are washing ashore, creating a foul odor that experts say could get worse during this weekend’s expected heat wave .
Seagulls sit next to dead fish in Lake Merritt in Oakland, Calif. on Monday, Aug. 29, 2022. Large numbers of dead fish and other sea life have been sighted all around the lake and other areas in the San Francisco Bay, prompting environmental groups to suggest that people and their pets stay out fo the water to avoid a hazardous algae bloom known as red tide.
“This was a natural occurrence of Mother Nature and so, we don’t know when it’s going to end,” she said Jon Rosenfield, a scientist with the San Francisco Baykeeper conservation group, said high levels of nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen in wastewater also drive the growth of algae blooms. Treating the water for nutrients would cost billions of dollars, and those costs would be passed on to residents, White said. She said water districts are funding studies to understand the effects of nutrients that have been present in the water since people settled in the area.Experts are also trying to determine what exactly is killing the fish.
In Oakland, people turned to social media to post photos of some of the thousands of dead fish at Lake Merritt, where visitors have started complaining about the stench.
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