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Article: RED TIDE IN GULF OF MEXICO PUTS FLORIDA KEYS AT RISK RESEARCHERS SAY TOXIN POSES THREAT TO CORAL REEFS, FISH
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 12, 2004
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[PUBLISHED CORRECTION - DATE: Wednesday, December 15, 2004:
Correction: Because of an editing error, a story about Red Tide off
the coast of Florida in Sunday's Nation pages paper misidentified the
Mote Marine Laboratory. The lab is not affiliated with Florida State
University).
KEY LARGO, Fla. - Scientists are tracking a 400-square-mile red
tide that is drifting through the Gulf of Mexico and threatening to
wash ashore on the Florida Keys.
"It's huge," said Billy Causey, superintendent of the Florida Keys
National Marine Sanctuary, adding that the toxic tide poses "a major
threat to coral and coral reefs."
Red tide is composed of a higher-than-normal concentration of
microscopic algae ...