https://phys.org/news/2018-09-red-tide-natural-scientists-coastal.html

Lovko is part of a team tracking the tide and trying to fine-tune widely circulated satellite maps that show much of the state's Gulf coast glowing bright red with toxic tide. But as Florida's summer of slime winds into fall, scientists like Lovko have also found themselves caught in an uncomfortable position: trying to referee a complicated and contentious political fight amid a heated election year where their research is getting twisted by competing interests—and sometimes leaving the public confused.

Just after Lake Okeechobee exploded with a massive blue-green algae bloom and water managers began flushing it to the coast, the red tide that started months earlier deepened, with the worst of the fish kills appearing in coastal waters fed by the vast lake's western relief outlet, the Caloosahatchee River.