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<p class="MsoNormal">Over the weekend Heterosigma was detected in water samples for the first of the season near Anacortes and Cypress Island. A surface sample taken from Guemes Channel near Anacortes Monday morning by an American Gold employee was in the
<u>5,600 cells/mL range (5.6 million/Liter)</u>. Water in nearby Cap Sante marina appears to be exclusively a pure Heterosigma culture along with the adjacent Fidalgo Bay area. Dark coffee brown and reddish brick-brown water is visible in the back waters of
the marina and leaking out into Fidalgo Bay as of Monday morning. Anyone wanting to start of culture of Heterosigma, here’s your chance.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Weekend plankton counts at the American Gold Cypress Island site ranged from 150k/L. at 1.5 meters to 50k/L. at 5 meters of Heterosigma. Water temps jumped up Saturday afternoon on the ebb tide at the farm site from 12.2 to 14.6 which corresponded
with the peak count of 150k cells per liter at 1.5 meters of Heterosigma. Several species of Dinoflagellates (Alexandrium, Noctiluca, Prorocentrum, Ceratium and Protoperidinium sp.) were also observed in Saturday’s samples at the farm and from samples taken
on the northeast side of Guemes Island (nearby hotspot monitoring station for blooms being transported out of Bellingham Bay and Samish Bays). Very few Diatoms are present in the water at this time. The evening flood tide pushed cooler clean water from the
south of Cypress Island up Bellingham Channel. Water temperatures dropped back to 12.4 at the Deepwater Bay sites and the counts were down to 40k/L. by late Saturday afternoon.
<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>Cypress Island <o:p></o:p></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Monday Heterosigma counts;<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>40k/L at 1.5 meters at 6:00AM<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>200k/L at 1.5 meters at 3:30PM<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> 70k/L at 5 meters<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>700k/L at 1.5 meters at 6:00PM<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> 680k/L at 5 meters <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>25k/L at 1.5 meters at 9:30PM<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph">8k/L at 5 meters<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Tuesday <o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>700K at 1.5 meters 7:00AM<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Port Angeles reported Heterosigma showing up for the first time also in Monday morning’s samples. Data from PA shows stratification of bloom. American Gold staff reported warmer water moved in over the weekend jumping from 9.8 degrees last
week to 12.6 Monday morning. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>Monday</i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Ediz Hook Site (outer PA harbor area) 700 am<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1m 70,000 c/l<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">5m 50,000 c/l<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10m 10,000 c/l<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">15m 0 c/l<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Boat Haven (historic hotspot near marina) 800 am<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1m 170,000 c/l<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">5m 50,000 c/l<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10m 30,000 c/l<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">15m 0 c/l<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Francis State Park (historic hotspot in Harbor) 820 am<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1m 70,000 c/l<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">5m 20,000 c/l<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10m 30,000 c/l<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Morse Creek (historic hotspot monitoring station) 1100am<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1m 180,000c/l<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">5m 30,000c/l<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10m 0c/l<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">15m 0c/l<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Ediz Hook Site (outer PA harbor area) 2:40PM <o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1m 140,000c/l<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">5m 110,00c/l<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10m 50,000c/l<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">15m 10,000c/l<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Boat Haven 3:00PM<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1m 330,000c/l<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">5m 90,000c/l<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10m 30,000c/l<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">15m 0<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Francis st park 3:00PM<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1m 290,000c/l<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">5m 10,000c/l<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10m 0<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Kevin Bright, Permit Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">American Gold Seafoods<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Anacortes Office: (360) 293-9448<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Cell: (360) 391-2409<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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