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While acute toxicity is well-documented, the chronic, sub-lethal accumulation of PbTx in higher trophic levels, particularly in elasmobranchs, remains poorly understood. Despite monitoring efforts that typically confirm bloom presence or absence, the cumulative dose experienced by resident fauna, a product of bloom intensity (cell density) and duration, is rarely quantified across tissue types. In this study, PbTx concentrations are quantified via competitive ELISA and compared between brain, gill, stomach, liver, and muscle tissue from juvenile blacktip sharks (Carcharhinus limbatus) opportunistically collected between 2020 and 2025 in the Greater Tampa Bay Area of Florida. This analysis investigates tissue-specific bioaccumulation, temporal dynamics relative to bloom events, and the utility of muscle biopsies as a non-lethal monitoring tool. 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