| Event name: | US-98-002 | |
| Country: | UNITED STATES | |
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Nature of the harmful event: |
Seafood toxins | |
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Event directly affected: |
Shellfish | |
| Toxicity detected: | Yes | |
| Associated syndrome: | ||
| Unexplained toxicity: | No | |
| Species implicated in toxin transmission (transvector): | ||
| Report the outcome of a monitoring programme: | Yes | |
| Event occurred before in this location: | Yes (Spatial and temporal occurrence patterns repeated every year since 1990 in Mississippi River plume, since 1993 in Terrebonne Bay estuary.) | |
| Individuals to contact: | DORTCH, Quay | |
| Location: | Latitude: , Longitude: | |
| General location information: |
Plume of the Mississippi ., Lousiana. HAB Area code(s): US-17 |
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| Additional location information: | All shelf and estuarine waters examined to date. The highest numbers of Pseudo-nitzschia spp. (10,000,000 cells/L) and the highest frequency of occurrence are observed on the shelf in the plume of the Mississippi River. Forth the first time in 1997, we sampled approximately monthly many shallow Louisiana estuaries over oyster beds. Maximum abundances were 1,000,000 cells/L and, depending on the estuary, between 8 and 36% of samples contained Pseudo-nitzschia spp. | |
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| Additional date-related information: | They occur all year in all locations, although highest abundances seem to be fall through spring. | |
| Causative organism known: | Yes | |
| Causative Species/Genus: |
Pseudo-nitzschia sp.
( cells/L)
Pseudo-nitzschia cf. Americana Pseudo-nitzschia subfraudulenta ( cells/L) Pseudo-nitzschia pungens ( cells/L) Pseudo-nitzschia pseudodelicatissima ( cells/L) Pseudo-nitzschia delicatissima ( cells/L) Pseudo-nitzschia multiseries ( cells/L) |
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| Chlorophyll concentration, if known: | µg/l | |
| Additional bloom information: | Several unidentified species were also found. We have determined from field data (up to 5 pg domoic acid/cell; Parsosns et al. submitted) and clonal culture studies (Doucette, pers. communication) that P. pseudodelicatissima is more toxic than observed pr | |
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| Temperature Range During Event: | Max: 30 °C, Min: 9 °C | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Salinity Range During Event: | Max: 36, Min: 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Growth: |
In situ |
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| Additional Environmental information: | Eutrophic, shallow estuaries and the highly eutrophic plume of the Mississippi River, often highly turbid, high nutrient inputs. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Management decision: | None | ||||||
| Additional harmful effect information: | Domoic acid measurements for 1997 and part of 1998 indicate cellular contents of up to 25 pg/Pseudo-nitzschia cell in phytoplankton over oyster beds, especially in the spring. So far there have been no reported cases of human illness or other animal morta | ||||||
