SoundHAB: Pseudo-nitzschia bloom near Bainbridge Island

[Jack Rensel]

What a difference a day makes.

 

At this current time there is a very dense bloom of Pseudo-Nitzschia
(pungens?) reported in the Rich Passage/Clam Bay area south of Bainbridge
Island.  The bloom apparently was advected in from Central Puget Sound with
the long flood tide.  The observer, Scott Ridgeway of Icicle Seafoods/AGS
who has been identifying plankton for > 20 years, relates that it is the
most dense bloom of this species he has ever seen in that area.  Secchi disk
visibility is about 2 meters.   Yesterday, you may recall, the water was
extraordinarily clear. 

 

Jack

 

J.E. Jack Rensel Ph.D.

Rensel Associates Aquatic Sciences

4209 234th Street N.E.

Arlington WA 98223

360-631-6538

jackrensel at att.net

www.AquaModel.org <http://www.aquamodel.org/> 

 

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