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Dead fish do not lie. Anna Maria Island is sick with red tide

Dead fish do not lie. Anna Maria Island is sick with red tide

Popular stretch of Holmes Beach was a graveyard Wednesday morning.

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Jul 28, 2021
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Dead fish do not lie. Anna Maria Island is sick with red tide
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Anna Maria Island, you have a dead fish problem. And the flies that feast on them, too.

Dead fish littered a section of Holmes Beach on Anna Maria Island on Wednesday morning, most likely because of red tide. (Photo by Marc R. Masferrer)

Wednesday morning, on the stretch of Holmes Beach north of Manatee Public Beach and south of the Martinque condo towers…

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