Red Tide Algae /Mung Algae, are they related?

[Karl F]

No Marine Bioligists, or armchair ones, want to take a stab at this?

[RIROCKHOUND]

I think the following is true: True red tide is usually a little noxious diatom (plankton critter) not a true weed; could the be releated??
F'ed if I know, just a geologist..

[likwid]

Red Tide and Mung are too seperate things.

Red Tide is an algae bloom (read more here: http://www.whoi.edu/redtide/) that kills shellfish.

While mung is just weeds etc. that sit right where you wanna be fishing and make it impossible to fish. (Which is being blown in/washed in by the storm)