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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:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Nice data set! Kudos to Brett for the extra effort and to Randy Hodgin, site manager. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'>It might benefit researchers to have the excel file raw data if it is available and could be posted to SoundHab? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'>It will be interesting (gulp) to see what the future brings as Salish Sea warming continues. Hopefully we can continue to get more main channel and backwater continuous data sets of the major driving factors like water temperature, PAR, tidal amplitude and wind speed. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Best regards, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Jack<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;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>Kevin Bright<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 9, 2014 1:34 PM<br><b>To:</b> soundhab@whoi.edu; soundhab-bounces@whoi.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> SoundHAB: Port Angeles Harbor June Heterosigma bloom data<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks to the persistent efforts of our long time American Gold Seafoods employee Brett Raemer, a large amount of data was collected before, during and after a massive Heterosigma bloom in June. Brett kept up a consistent sampling program while the farm was in the middle of a Heterosigma bloom that was causing heavy fish stock mortalities. When Brett wasn’t diving in the fish pens and helping the farm staff deal with the impact of a fish killing Heterosigma bloom, he was running around Port Angeles Harbor collecting water samples and counting slides under the microscope. Not an easy task. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Below is a graph of the data he collected from a single sample station in the harbor. Signs of stress and increased fish mortalities began to occur on the 11<sup>th</sup> when concentrations of Heterosigma reached 3,500 cells/ml by that afternoon. Afternoon flood tides would push the worst water from the west side of Port Angeles Harbor into the farm site located at the end of Ediz Hook. On the evening of June 14<sup>th</sup> very bad water (5,100 cell/ml) hit the site and likely did the most damage to the captive fish stocks. This can be seen in some of the data with the PM counts being generally much higher than the AM counts. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Also, this Heterosigma bloom lasted longer than the many I have seen in the past. Cell counts remained above 1,000 per ml for nearly 14 days, fueled by abundant sunlight, the large Fraser River plume and maybe a bit of Victoria’s secret. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Kevin <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=1434 height=723 id="Chart_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.png@01CF9B7E.24CAAA80"><o:p></o:p></p><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"'><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><p class=MsoNormal><img width=131 height=99 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CF9B7E.24CAAA80" alt="http://home.icicleseafoods.com/imagelib/Logos/AGS.gif"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>