Harmful algal bloom is not yet killing fish, but experts say that people and pets should stay away from discolored water. Last summer’s incident was unusually large and deadly, killing thousands of…
A toxic red tide has returned to San Francisco Bay, raising fears of a reprise of last summer’s unusually large fish die-off.
“It seems as though we’re catching the very early phases of this,” said David Senn, a senior scientist at the San Francisco Estuary Institute. “We don’t yet know, at this point, what the trajectory will be.” A combination of nitrogen runoff and warm water is the likely culprit, according to Senn and Eileen White, the executive officer of the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board.
But she said that the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board is working with the region’s 37 different wastewater utilities to plan, design and construct improvements to treatment facilities to reduce the discharge of nitrogen into the bay.
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