{"id":16693,"date":"2012-08-17T10:37:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T15:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=16693"},"modified":"2012-08-17T11:47:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T16:47:59","slug":"red-tide-update-a-million-dead-fish-on-beaches-of-galveston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/08\/17\/red-tide-update-a-million-dead-fish-on-beaches-of-galveston\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Tide Has Likely Killed a Million Fish in Galveston"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16699\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/08\/17\/red-tide-update-a-million-dead-fish-on-beaches-of-galveston\/091511_bbshipchannel\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16699\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16699\" title=\"091511_bbshipchannel\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/08\/091511_bbshipchannel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Photo by Tony Reisinger\/Courtesy of Parks &amp; Wildlife<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dead redfish along the shores of the Brownsville Ship Channel during a red tide in September 2011.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A red tide in the Gulf has killed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpwd.state.tx.us\/landwater\/water\/environconcerns\/hab\/redtide\/status.phtml\">nearly a million fish<\/a> on the beaches of Galveston, according to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. The fish &#8212; most of them Gulf <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpwd.state.tx.us\/fishboat\/fish\/didyouknow\/menhaden.phtml\">menhaden<\/a>, but some species of catfish as well &#8212; are washing up on the Galveston and Surfside beaches, as well as the Bolivar Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>The department says that they haven&#8217;t seen any red tide on aerial flights over the upper or lower coasts, but that &#8220;does not mean that the red tide is gone, but rather that cell counts are not high enough to discolor the water.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Samples taken at other Texas beaches, like Mission Bay and Padre Island, haven&#8217;t turned up any red tide, either.<\/p>\n<h4>Earlier: <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/08\/15\/why-dead-fish-are-washing-up-on-the-beaches-of-galveston\/\">Why Dead Fish Are Washing Up on the Beaches of Galveston<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A red tide in the Gulf has killed nearly a million fish on the beaches of Galveston, according to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. The fish &#8212; most of them Gulf menhaden, but some species of catfish as well &#8212; are washing up on the Galveston and Surfside beaches, as well as the Bolivar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":16699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[215,90],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}