Officials with the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board said that harmful algal blooms also known as “red tides” found recently in parts of the Bay have not so far brought widespread fish deaths like a similar event in the region last year.

The water board and other agencies have been monitoring the algal blooms seen since early this month along parts of the shoreline in areas off of Alameda, between Emeryville to Albany, and certain parts of Marin County, but have not found any significant harm to aquatic life.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.