SoundHAB: Heterosigma Project Request for Assistance: Harmful Algal Bloom Listserv

[Vera Trainer]

Hello everyone as a follow up to Jack's message ----


The NOAA-Northwest Fisheries Science Center was recently funded for the 
study of/ Heterosigma akashiwo/ ecology and oceanography in Puget 
Sound.  This project starts now and continues through the summer of 
2013.  The project goal is to identify those conditions that promote 
toxicity of /Heterosigma/ and the specific toxic elements that kill fish.

 

We are interested in knowing the locations of any /Heterosigma akashiwo/ 
blooms or cells.  Please let us know the date, time and specific global 
position (if by boat) or shore sampling location where these blooms were 
seen.  We will be using these cells for culture studies, but also want 
to respond to /Heterosigma/ events using a mobile lab that is currently 
being built.

 

Please contact Jack Rensel, Vera Trainer (Vera.l.Trainer at noaa.gov 
<mailto:Vera.l.Trainer at noaa.gov>) or Brian Bill (brian.d.bill at noaa.gov 
<mailto:brian.d.bill at noaa.gov>) if you notice any Heterosigma cells or 
blooms in your sampling area.  Jack Rensel will be helping coordinate 
bloom detection and field sampling of several groups and can be reached 
at jackrensel at att.net <mailto:jackrensel at att.net> (cell 360-631-6538)

 

We are interested in identifying both farmed AND wild fish mortalities 
caused by these blooms, so please let us know if you have any 
observations of fish kills and we will respond any time, day or night.

 

Thanks very much for your help with this Heterosigma project. 

 

Sincerely,

 

Vera Trainer

 



Jack Rensel wrote:
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> *SoundHAB 2010 -- Monitoring and Emergency Response Partnership for 
> Puget Sound Harmful Algal Blooms*
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> Welcome to the fifth year of SoundHAB operation.   We are off to a 
> slow start due to the weather, but that changes fast and so do blooms 
> in our region. The purpose of this list serve is for researchers and 
> managers to share timely information about harmful algal blooms 
> throughout the Pacific Northwest but especially Western Washington 
> marine waters.  There are currently 92 members with several new 
> members this year and a few who will be actively monitoring discrete 
> locations.
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> We are interested in exchanging information on all types of HABs, fish 
> kills (wild and farmed), unusual oceanographic events and related 
> information.  There are currently three major research groups in 
> Western Washington involved in research on /Heterosigma akashiwo. 
> /Also a study being published this month by Rensel, Haigh and Tynan 
> has linked /Heterosigma/ blooms with mortality of Fraser River 
> juvenile sockeye salmon over the past 20 years. This raises the 
> question about other salmon runs and marine fish, particularly those 
> with strong riverine influence in the late spring, early summer during 
> juvenile fish seawater entry and the early fall when some species of 
> adult salmon return.  /Alexandrium catenella/ and domoic acid toxin 
> causing species remain high priority species and we ask that fish and 
> shellfish farmers and others report blooms of any of these species 
> immediately.  We also can expect the unexpected in terms of new or 
> recurring problem species, it is the nature of the work.
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Vera L. Trainer, Ph.D.

Program Manager

Marine Biotoxin Group

Northwest Fisheries Science Center

2725 Montlake Blvd. E.

Seattle, WA  98112 USA


(206)860-6788

(206)860-3335 FAX

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