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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Message from Kevin Bright that bounced off the WHOI server for some unknown reason.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Many thanks Kevin for the information and photos!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Jack<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Kevin Bright [mailto:KevinB@IcicleSeafoods.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 01, 2011 9:16 AM<br><b>To:</b> soundhab-bounces@whoi.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> June 2011 Fraser bloom update<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The Heterosigma bloom that moved through the north Puget Sound area seems to have ran its’ course for the time being in the eastern side of the San Juan Islands. On June 26<sup>th</sup>, 27<sup>th</sup> and 28<sup>th</sup> counts in the millions of cells per liter were being found at the surface (1.5 m) at the known hot spots. These sites were being fed by the Fraser River plume as can be seen in the photos below. Counts at the Cypress farm site peaked at 1.8 mil cells/ L., on June 26<sup>th</sup> as red streaks swept through some of the fish pens in Deepwater Bay with the tide. Farm personnel report seeing a dark brown streak of water (1.8 million/L.) move through two of the 12 cages at the site on the evening of June 26th. The next morning divers pulled 850 and 500 dead fish out of those two pens. The other 10 cages of fish at the same site had mortalities in the 50 to 90 fish per cage range. Fortunately the bloom stayed near the surface and cell counts at 10 m were staying an order of magnitude less. Subsequent dives over the next few days had single digit fish mortalities in all of the pens. Counts dropped to the 500K to 800K range at the surface and stayed 180K at 10 meters over the next couple of days. Large flood tides brought cleaner, green water into the area from the south up Rosario Strait. The increasing tides and tidal mixing during the week, coupled with the cloudy weather may have helped to break up the June Fraser Heterosigma culture that had been brewing over the past couple of weeks. Neap tides the week prior and several weeks of large flow rates from the Fraser created a perfect “several hundred square mile large Petri dish.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Port Angeles site is still reporting some Heterosigma in the samples as of June 30<sup>th</sup>. No increases in fish mortality occurred at that site during the event. Cell counts did not get over 1 million per liter which seems to be the magic number. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Fish pen site, near Coast Guard Station at the entrance to Port Angeles Harbor:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>AM 90,000 to 210,000<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>PM 200,000 to 320,000<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Near the City of Port Angeles <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>AM 100,000 to 410,000<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>PM 300,000 to 700,000<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Inside the Harbor at the western end <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Am 150,000 to 320,000<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>PM 260,000 to 480,000<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Outside PA Harbor in the Strait of Juan de Fuca (outside the Hook)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Am 140,000 to 160,000<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>PM 130,000 to 290,000<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The photo in the <b>Top Left:</b> show a Rafter slide with a water sample taken from a red patch of water on the east side of Guemes Island. Heterosigma cell counts were in the 30,000,000 cells/ l., range. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Top Right:</b> The Cone Islands adjacent to Cypress Island and 2 miles north of the fish pens. Eagle Harbor can be seen in the top of the photo where the boats are moored.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Bottom left:</b> Looking northward from Sucia Island towards Vancouver and the Fraser River delta (Point Roberts is visible in the distance) showing the Fraser plume setting up the perfect culturing environment for this bloom event. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Bottom right</b>: East side of Guemes Island with river plume and red streaks. 30 million/ l., samples came from here. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We are flying today to take another look around the San Juan’s and Straits for red water. Hopefully we don’t see any and we can all enjoy the weekend. Onward to July.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Kevin Bright, American Gold Seafoods<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=741 height=502 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image012.jpg@01CC37CF.8BD4F890"> <img width=784 height=502 id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image013.jpg@01CC37CF.8BD4F890"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=743 height=542 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image014.jpg@01CC37CF.8BD4F890"> <img width=782 height=543 id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image015.jpg@01CC37CF.8BD4F890"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Kevin and Kelley Bright [mailto:kjbright@comcast.net] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 01, 2011 6:46 AM<br><b>To:</b> Kevin Bright<br><b>Subject:</b> FW: SoundHAB: Heterosigma Bloom East Sound, Orcas Island, San Juans<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> soundhab-bounces@whoi.edu [mailto:soundhab-bounces@whoi.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Megan Black<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 30, 2011 7:46 PM<br><b>To:</b> soundhab@whoi.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> SoundHAB: Heterosigma Bloom East Sound, Orcas Island, San Juans<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>East Sound of Orcas Island is experiencing a localized intense <i>Heterosigma</i> bloom at 30-28 PSU. Occurring with it are large accumulations of <i>Noctiluca</i> against the shore lines. Also, there are large numbers of dinoflagellates including <i>Dinophysis</i>, small <i>Gymnodinium</i>, <i>Protoperidinium</i>, <i>Alexandrium</i>, fewer <i>Gyrodinium</i>, and fewer <i>Oxhyrris.</i> The north end of East Sound contained fewer <i>Heterosigma</i>, few <i>Noctiluca</i>, or dinoflagellates, but was thick with an ameboid flagellated protozoan similar to <i>Cercomonas</i>. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>For comparison, I've included first a photo of the waters just north of Orcas where a diluted Frasier River silt water mass on the right is meeting clearer waters on the left. Next is a photo of a bay on the south east side of East Sound where the <i>Noctiluca</i> is pushed up against the shore and the <i>Heterosigma</i> is thick from the mouth of the bay outward. The third photo is of Rosario, midway up East Sound, and again, <i>Noctiluca </i>is visible as a mass along the shore and docks, and <i>Heterosigma</i> dominates farther out from shore.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Liz Tobin and I observed no other obvious <i>Heterosigma</i> blooms around the San Juans in yesterday's flight. Also, the notable <i>Noctiluca</i> bloom covering the main basin of Puget Sound had subsided by this morning after yesterday's strong winds from the south.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Photos taken 29June2011 by Megan Black from ~1200 feet. Feel free to use them with acknowledgment.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><img width=484 height=640 id="_x0000_i1029" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CC37C7.6304CBA0"><img width=644 height=480 id="_x0000_i1030" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CC37C7.6304CBA0"><img width=484 height=640 id="_x0000_i1031" src="cid:image003.jpg@01CC37C7.6304CBA0"><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;min-height: 14.0px'><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;min-height: 14.0px'><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Megan Black</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;min-height: 14.0px'>Doctoral Candidate<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;min-height: 14.0px'>Department of Biology<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;min-height: 14.0px'>University of Washington<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;min-height: 14.0px'>Cattolico Laboratory<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;min-height: 14.0px'>42 Kincaid Hall<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;min-height: 14.0px'>Box 351800<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;min-height: 14.0px'>Seattle, WA 98195<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;min-height: 14.0px'>425-753-5679<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;min-height: 14.0px'><i><a href="mailto:mmdblack@u.washington.edu">mmdblack@u.washington.edu</a></i><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;min-height: 14.0px'><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;min-height: 14.0px'><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;min-height: 14.0px'><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;min-height: 14.0px'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>