HAB Task Force Products
Seafood Safety Survey for Florida Restaurants
As part of ongoing efforts to improve communication about seafood safety during red tide events, the Florida Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) Task Force is conducting a statewide survey of restaurant owners and managers. The survey is designed to better understand how restaurants address customer questions about seafood safety during red tides, learn how they communicate with patrons and source seafood, identify common communication challenges, and determine what resources would best support their businesses.
The survey builds on recommendations from the Florida HAB Task Force and subsequent communications planning efforts, which identified the need to enhance relationships with key stakeholders, and better understand public information needs through social science research, and develop clear, consistent messaging about harmful algal blooms.
Survey results will guide the development of communication tools and educational resources that will help Florida restaurants confidently address customer questions about seafood safety during red tide events while strengthening collaboration between the restaurant industry and agencies involved in harmful algal bloom response.
Do you own or manage a Florida restaurant? Please take this survey:
Safe Seafood Survey
The Harmful Algal Bloom Task Force determines research, monitoring, control, and mitigation strategies for red tide and other harmful algal blooms.
- Initial Recommendations Regarding Red Tide (Karenia brevis) Blooms (January 2020)
- HAB Task Force Update and Initial Recommendations (January 2020)
- Resource Guide for Public Health Response to Harmful Algal Blooms in Florida, 2nd edition (September 2021)
- Progress and Recommendations Regarding Red Tide (Karenia brevis) Blooms (December 2021)
- Progress on priority recommendations for red tide (Karenia brevis) (January 2025)
- Red Tide Videos
- Red Tide Rack Cards
Historic HAB Task Force Products
Harmful Algal Blooms in Florida ("White Paper")
This report, also called the "White Paper," was prepared by the Harmful Algal Bloom Task Force Technical Advisory Group. It was submitted to the Task Force in 1999.
Resource Guide For Public Health Response To Harmful Algal Blooms In Florida
Based on recommendations from the FHABTF Public Health Technical Panel, this technical report updates and expands on the 1999 "White Paper." It provides information for managers to develop localized public health response plans to HABs.