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Plankton Blooms	Full bloom in Hecate for 23^rd
	Satellite coverage poor lately

Lots of Cloudy weather obscures satellite imagery --- but one good image on 23^rd implies Hecate again blooming --- if all Dixon Entrance blooming – implies effect of Skeena River bringing new nutrients

	Hecate bloom not equivalent of WCVI area
	Puget Sound and West Coast Vancouver Island (WCVI) continue to bloom --- presumably in part fuelled by Fraser River discharge – thus renewing the nutrients

	Note WCVI bloom intensifying

	Offshore BC slowly heating
	By 23^rd whole west cost hotter than usual – except perhaps Hecate

Previous articles: Full bloom July 15^th Unclear on July 8^th Seen as over on July 1^st Waning on June 25^th Full bloom on June14^th Building on June9^th Compare w last May 23^rd And before that w May 9^th	Lucky remained ‘cool’?
	As described in Skeena R discharge and the salmon runs – the cool weather kept the snow in the mountains – and thus the ‘spring freshet’ lasting into late July. As waters off BC become atypically warm – we should see the remaining snow pack come down the Fraser and the Skeena

Created by LG on 30/7/2007

Last updated on Sunday, August 12, 2007