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Shellfish Culture and harmful algal blooms	Monitoring North Coast waters
	If mussels or clam farming are to survive on NC – requires good info on HAB occurrences

Station	Collection Date	*PSP (Mouse)**	ASP (HPLC)	*Alexandrium tamarensis* (PSP) cells/L	*Alexandrium catenella* (PSP) cells/L	*Dinophysis* sp. (DSP) cells/L
Bully Island	5-Jul	490	ND	14000000	0	0
Fin Island	14-Jul			11000000	0	1000000
Fin Island	17-Jul	780	ND	4000000	0	1000000
Metlakatla Bay	12-Aug	580	ND	4000000	0	0
Fin Island	2-Jul	1900	ND	3000000	0	0
Metlakatla Bay	3-Jun	74	ND	2000000	0	0
Bully Island	25-Jun	<42	ND	2000000	0	0
Metlakatla Bay	2-Jul	100	ND	2000000	0	0
Kagan Bay	20-Jul	<38	ND	2000000	0	1000000
Metlakatla Bay	19-Aug	380	ND	2000000	0	0
Metlakatla Bay	26-Aug	120	ND	2000000	0	0
Metlakatla Bay	21-May	46	ND	1000000	0	0

Alexandrium

(from BioToxin site)

BioToxin is not just a frill but a necessity if there is to be clam or mussel farming

See this Conference summary from Ireland for similarity with a mature shellfish farming area

Dinophysis Bloom in 2002 (sorted from BioToxin data)	DSP caused by Dinophysis spp (NOAA site)
	Clunky but good images here; And the conference summary has good description of Dinophysis bloom following intrusion cold water

Good images here; and here for ‘catenella’ And here

Created by LG Sunday, September 14, 2003