Where did you get that BS story?
Red Tide happens naturally, but you never see fish kills and wide spread smell like this. Worse in the 11 years I've been down here.
But in this case, it was the planned chemical spill from Piney Point. Their waste product from making fertilizer was deliberately dumped into the Bay and everyone knew this was going to cause a Red Tide explosion. But, the whole dam giving way would have created an even worse Red Tide.
Below is from Wikipedia. Just google Piney Point if you want to confirm..........
Piney Point phosphate plant is an industrial site in
Manatee County, Florida, formerly the location of a fertilizer plant and currently owned by
HRK Holdings, which leases portions of the land to industrial tenants under the name
Eastport.[1][2] In March 2021, a
phosphogypsum stack, the
dam to the reservoir storing wastewater
from phosphate tailings created by from the former plant's operations, began to fail, prompting evacuations on April 1 followed by the governor of Florida issuing a
state of emergency on April 3.
[3][4] Contaminated water was discharged into
Tampa Bay in an effort to prevent the reservoir's collapse