Sequential observations were carried out in Atsumi Bay during the period from the beginning to the end of a bloom of the diatom Eucampia zodiacus. Spectral analysis was applied to the data sets of temperature, salinity and fluorescence, which were continuously monitored in the surface layer. From the unconcurrence of the peaks in the power spectral density of respective parameters, it appears that the behavior of phytoplankton patches was rather independent of the distribution of water masses. The red tide often extends to the whole area of the bay. Therefore, in a small-scale bay like Atsumi Bay, it would be difficult to discuss the developmental processes of red tide in the viewpoint of the so-called "critical size" at which the reproduction of phytoplankton and the physical dissipation of the eddies balance. However, the growth and deterioration of the phytoplankton patch in size were traced by the shift of density peaks in the power spectrum of fluorescence, The coherences among the parameters directly reflected the change in weather and the subsequent transition of the bloom. Spectral analysis could be employed for routine operation to clearly predict the development of red tides in a eutrophic bay.