Red Tide Is Plaguing Beaches on Both of Florida’s Coasts

Dead fish sit after they washed ashore at the Ocean Inlet Park in Ocean Ridge, Fla., on Oct. 4, 2018. Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP

Many of Florida’s famous beaches were empty on Oct. 4 because of a red tide outbreak that for the first time in decades is plaguing both the Gulf and Atlantic coasts at once.

While the Gulf Coast has suffered the brunt of the toxic algae outbreak all summer, it only just showed up this week on the Atlantic beaches of South Florida.