| Event name: | EG-87-001 | |
| Country: | EGYPT | |
|
Nature of the harmful event: |
Water Discoloration , Mass mortalities | |
|
Event directly affected: |
Natural Fish | |
| Toxicity detected: | No | |
| Associated syndrome: | PSP | |
| Unexplained toxicity: | No | |
| Species implicated in toxin transmission (transvector): | ||
| Report the outcome of a monitoring programme: | No | |
| Event occurred before in this location: | Yes (recurrent phenomena with red tide) | |
| Individuals to contact: | ISMAEL, Amany | |
| Location: | Latitude: 29.883056, Longitude: 31.216667 | |
| General location information: |
, HAB Area code(s): EG-02 |
|
| Additional location information: | Eastern Harbour, Alexandria HAB Area code(s): EG-02 | |
| Bloom event dates (yyyy/mm/dd): |
Event Date:1987-06-15 |
|
| Quarantine levels dates (yyyy/mm/dd): | ||
| Additional date-related information: | ||
| Causative organism known: | Yes | |
| Causative Species/Genus: |
Alexandrium minutum Halim 1960
(6x106 cells/L)
|
|
| Co-Ocurring Species/Genus: | ||
| Chlorophyll concentration, if known: | µg/l | |
| Additional bloom information: | ||
| Event-related bibliography: | Zaghloul, F.A. and Halim, Y., 1991. Long- term eutrophication in a semi-closed bay: The Eastern Harbour of Alexandria. Science of the Total Environment. Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., Amsterdam: 727-735. | |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nutrient information: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Temperature Range During Event: | Max: 28.5 °C, Min: °C | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Salinity Range During Event: | Max: 38.8, Min: 28.2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bloom location in the water column: |
Surface |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Growth: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Growth Comments | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Additional Environmental information: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||
| Kit used: | Type of kit used: | ||||||
| Additional information: | |||||||
| Economic losses: | |||||||
| Management decision: | |||||||
| Additional harmful effect information: | anoxicity and/or gill clogging | ||||||
