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A team of scientists collected water samples in the Gulf of Maine. Researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will monitor the red tide outbreak starting this weekend with emergency funding from the National Ocean Service.
A team of scientists collected water samples in the Gulf of Maine. Researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will monitor the red tide outbreak starting this weekend with emergency funding from the National Ocean Service. (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Photo) Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Photo

Red tide shuts bay to shellfishing

Outbreak tied to wind, rain; worst since '72

By Beth Daley and Rebecca Mahoney
Globe Staff, Globe Correspondent / May 27, 2005

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A potent red tide outbreak in Massachusetts Bay is worsening, according to scientists who have recorded some of the highest concentrations of the toxic algal bloom in three decades drifting in coastal waters. Massachusetts officials yesterday shut down shellfishing throughout Cape Cod Bay. (Full article: 1039 words)

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