As far as I know, a Red Tide is caused by a surge of underutilized nutrients which drift into an area where those nutrients can be assimilated rapidly.
For instance, a fish graveyard in an iron poor region of the ocean decays into macro nutrients, which need to drift into iron rich waters to be utilized.
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