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Manatee death and fish kills on Marco

A red substance, likely an algae of some kind, floats among the dead fish at Mackle Park on Wednesday.

Photo by KELLY FARRELL, Staff

A red substance, likely an algae of some kind, floats among the dead fish at Mackle Park on Wednesday.

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  • Marco resident Simon Padgett tied a deceased manatee up to his dock behind his home on Greenview Street Wednesday morning to be later removed by Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers.
  • A red substance, likely an algae of some kind, floats among the dead fish at Mackle Park on Wednesday.
  • City Environmental Specialist Nancy Richie (left) talks to residents from Greenview Street, Marco Island, including Beverly Mokrzecky, Simon Padgett and Peter Mokrzecky, about the dead manatee and fish they discovered in the canal behind their homes Wednesday.
  • City Environmental Specialist Nancy Richie investigates a fish kill at Mackle Park Wednesday morning as well as a reddish-colored algae in the lake, which she says is not red tide.
  • The reddish substance floating on the lake at Mackle Park is not red tide, reports City Environmental Specialist Nancy Richie. Hundreds of fish are dead at the lake due instead to cold weather and will be cleaned up by the city, she reports.
  • Scenes of the fish kill Wednesday at Mackle Park on Marco Island.
  • Scenes of a fish kill at Mackle Park on Marco Wednesday morning. Despite the red substance, which City Environmental specialist Nancy Richie said was not red tide, the deaths are being reported throughout southern Florida due to the cold weather of the previous 10 days or so, Richie said.

Shocked from the cold weather thousands of fish and manatee are turning up dead on Marco Island and throughout Southern Florida.

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