The brown tide algae first began appearing in lagoon water samples in 2005, but in low levels. Then in the summer of 2012, it bloomed in Mosquito Lagoon, then moved west to the northern Indian ...

The brown tide algae first began appearing in lagoon water samples in 2005, but in low levels. Then in the summer of 2012, it bloomed in Mosquito Lagoon, then moved west to the northern Indian ...

That's how Brent Meister, a marine biologist and aquarist at the Marine Discovery Center in New Smyrna Beach, described a local man's encounter with a fully grown octopus in Mosquito Lagoon last week.