July 17, 2012: Mahogany Tide

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If you walked around Baltimore’s Inner Harbor this spring, you may have noticed the water had taken on a murky, reddish-brown appearance.   That’s if your nose hadn’t already alerted you that something’s fishy.   A dense bloom of algae invaded our local waters. And it was causing fish in the area to go belly up.   So what is this water-fouling, fish-killing bay monster, exactly?