Background: From January 2002 to May 2004, 28 puffer fish poisoning (PFP) cases in Florida, New Jersey, Virginia, and New York were linked to the Indian River Lagoon (IRL) in Florida. Saxitoxins (STXs ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Scallop season has been temporarily closed in the Pasco Zone due to toxic algae blooms, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) announced Wednesday. The FWC ...

It’s only a one-hour drive between Orlando’s theme park attractions and Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. The route crosses over one of the most biodiverse habitats in North America—but most ...

Scallop season is on hold in the Pasco Zone. The FWC says high levels of saxitoxin and Pyrodinium bahamense have been detected. It's not clear when the Pasco Zone could reopen or whether the season ...

Glowing water in the Indian River Lagoon is created by Pyrodinium bahamense, a single-celled marine algae. Classified as plankton, these microorganisms photosynthesize sunlight during the day and emit ...

Bioluminescent bays are among the rarest and most fragile of ecosystems. They form when large numbers of micro­organisms, often dinoflagellates such as Pyrodinium bahamense, congregate in a lagoon ...

TACLOBAN CITY, LEYTE, Philippines – The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) in Eastern Visayas has issued a red tide warning over Cancabato Bay in Tacloban City after seawater samples ...

Pyrodinium bahamense (bioluminescent) and Ceratium furca (non-bioluminescent), two potentially harmful algal bloom species (HABs), are the most abundant dinoflagellates in the tropical bioluminescent ...