Dead baitfish dotted the shoreline like seashells and the air reeked of rot Saturday morning on Pass-a-Grille Beach.
Cleanup crews with the city of St. Pete Beach cleared roughly 1,500 pounds of dead fish from the shoreline this weekend, including at Pass-a-Grille, as a Red Tide bloom lingers offshore of Pinellas County.
Crews topped their blue 5-gallon buckets with fish for three days between Thursday and Sunday, and the “worst” day for fish kills so far was Saturday on Pass-a-Grille, according to Mandy Edmunds, parks supervisor for the parks and recreation department at the city of St. Pete Beach. The beaches were clearer on Monday morning compared to over the weekend.
