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<p class=MsoNormal>This year is shaping up to be an intensive year for blooms of
the harmful alga Heterosigma akashiwo in Puget Sound, the Strait and possibly
the coast. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Here I forward some information provided by Kevin Bright of
American Gold Seafoods with a few comments of my own. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I ask that if you observe blooms or suspected fish or
invertebrate kills that you post to this web site. There is no ongoing
funding for notification, it is all volunteer. Also you should
contact the State Department of Fish and Wildlife and NOAA (Vera Trainer) if
you think your observations are particularly significant, although posting your
observations should be sufficient. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>We suspected this would be a hot year as the sediments are
seeded from last year with cysts and there is a large snow pack to melt off and
cause stratification in the upper water column. Blooms will occur
depending on the weather and in particular in the past it has focused around
the end of June and beginning of July. A similar situation occurred in
1991 after the big bloom of 1990. June is typically wet and cool
and then July is hot and calm and thus the alga starts reproducing successfully.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>As we did not receive funding for our SoundHABs research
proposal, the risks are likely higher than normal too, it never fails, get
funding and blooms don’t occur, don’t get funding and all hell
breaks loose. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Jack<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>J.E. Jack Rensel Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Rensel Associates Aquatic Sciences<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>4209 234th Street N.E. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Arlington WA 98223 USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>360-435-3285<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>cell: 360-631-6538<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:jackrensel@att.net">jackrensel@att.net</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b>Earliest major bloom of Heterosigma in recent (recorded)
Puget Sound history:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>May 29, 2007 Message from Kevin Bright:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Elevated
counts of Heterosigma at Cypress Island this morning. The highest count was
350K/L at 1.5m and 60K/L at 10m. There is some brown water to the north of us
and some reddish brown streaks mixed into it places. The worst water looked to
be coming from Bellingham Bay and north of Bellingham, in the Cherry Point
area. There was pretty sizable patch of the red water there, and leaking
streaks down to the south and west. The water looks fairly stratified, with
milky Fraser, Nooksack, Samish river water on top. You can see green water
below the prop wash of larger vessels. SPML will be sending a boat up toward
Cherry Point Wednesday for another study, but will take water samples along the
way for the Strom lab. Northeast winds, and sunny weather the next few days.
Morning big ebb (minuses), afternoon floods. Fish are on starve, counts should
stay low tonight and no morts to date. Canadian Farms (Quatsino Sound area)
lost a few fish to Chrysochrymulina sp., over the weekend.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>June 11, 2007 Message from R. Hodgins, Port Angeles: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Heterosigma
bloom in Port Angeles Harbor on Saturday afternoon at 1.1 million c/l at the
farm. We ran the aeration system from 10:00 am Saturday to 8:00 am Sunday . By Sunday
afternoon all the cell counts were under 200,000 c/l .Monday morning counts at
the farm site were all under 160,000 c/l ,so we will put the fish back on half
ration feeding schedule. Mort picks had been done each day over the weekend and
there is no mortality to report. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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