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Quarterly water-quality reports show rising salinities, winter blooms and low oyster recruitment in Indian River Lagoon
Summary
Scientists reported unusually dry conditions leading to higher salinities at multiple monitoring sites, continued winter bloom conditions including Aureoumbra (brown tide), no hypoxia recorded in the reporting window, and seasonally low oyster recruitment and seagrass percent cover at several transects.
At the council's Feb. 13 meeting, Lauren Hall (St. Johns River Water Management District) and Melanie Parker (South Florida Water Management District) presented Northern/Central and Southern Lagoon water-quality updates covering November 2025 through early February 2026.
Hall said the basin experienced a very dry three-month period after a rainy October and that continuous monitoring stations show salinity increases at several sites, notably Mosquito Lagoon, Vero and Titusville. "Our salinity due to this lack…
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