Corpus Christi: Red tide found in Packery Channel

Red tide found in Packery Channel

PORT ARANSAS — Red tide was detected late Thursday and early Friday at the mouth of Packery Channel and between the Port Aransas jetties, said a biologist with the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department.

Concentrations of the toxic algae were not high enough to kill fish, but were dense enough to cause minor symptoms such as coughing, throat irritation and watery eyes in people on the beach and jetties, said Meridith Byrd, the department’s Hazardous Algae Bloom response coordinator. [read rest of article]