My memory tells me there was another bad one in '98-'99 but the record doesn't go that far (starts 2000). Here's a bit from an '02 red tide fish kill news article, New Symrna:

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I'm genuinely curious about the skepticism to this being Red Tide. It looks like that skepticism has popped up in this thread as well. In the paper today, the PB lifeguard was writing in marker "possible" between the printed words "BEACH CLOSED" and "RED TIDE." Does it matter if it's really "Red Tide" if it's bad enough to close the beaches and people are getting sick with symptoms consistent with red tide. I know I went out in Jupiter a week ago and I just thought I was out of shape or catching a cold but I never got really sick. Just headaches and coughing for a week+. If it's rotting Sargasso seaweed or injection-well bacteria bubbling up, is that lifeguard going to write on the posted paper "it's actually not Red Tide, its this or that." What's with the doubt? The symptoms are real

I think some test results might be available late today or tomorrow. Here's where they'll be posted: Florida DEP

It matters because different things have different impacts and necessary precautions. As it is, it is red tide according to the tests. The choppy water from all this onshore wind is going to make the aerosols from that crap way worse than when the water is flat calm. Onshore wind plus red tide is a nasty combo.

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