| Event name: | FI-00-001 | |
| Country: | FINLAND | |
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Nature of the harmful event: |
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Event directly affected: |
Natural Fish , Shellfish | |
| Toxicity detected: | Yes (Approximate range: 50-2000 µg/g dry tissue, but no animals tests.) | |
| Associated syndrome: | ||
| Unexplained toxicity: | No | |
| Species implicated in toxin transmission (transvector): | ||
| Report the outcome of a monitoring programme: | No | |
| Event occurred before in this location: | Yes (Data from 1996-2000. Occurrence of intense, toxic waterblooms of N. spumigena is regular (July-September).) | |
| Individuals to contact: | KANKAANPÄÄ, Harri | |
| Location: | Latitude: , Longitude: | |
| General location information: |
Gulf of Finland, Southern Finland., Hanko, Helsinki, Luga Bay, Koporskaya Bay. HAB Area code(s): FI-05 |
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| Additional location information: | Waterbloom coverage: central to western open Gulf of Finland. | |
| Bloom event dates (yyyy/mm/dd): | Start: 2000-07-18, End: 2000-08-10 | |
| Quarantine levels dates (yyyy/mm/dd): | ||
| Additional date-related information: | Mussels dived from coastal stations within the regions given above. Fish caught by fishermen. | |
| Causative organism known: | Yes | |
| Causative Species/Genus: |
Nodularia spumigena
( cells/L)
7-2900 mg/m3. |
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| Co-Ocurring Species/Genus: |
Aphanizomenon flos-aquae
( cells/L)
300-3200 mg/m3 |
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| Chlorophyll concentration, if known: | µg/l | |
| Additional bloom information: | Phytoplankton collected from a research vessel with plankton net. Bloom contained also Anabaena sp. | |
| Event-related bibliography: | Sipiä V., H. Kankaanpää, H. Lahti, J. Meriluoto and W. W. Carmichael. 2001. Detection of nodularin in flounders and cod from the Baltic Sea. Environmental Toxicology 16, 121-126. Sipiä V., Kankaanpää H., Meriluoto J. 2000. The first observation of okadaic acid in flounder in the Baltic Sea. Sarsia 85, 471-475. Kankaanpää H., Sipiä V., Kuparinen J., Chizmar J. and W. W. Carmichael. Nodularin analyses and toxicity of Nodularia spumigena (Nostocales, Cyanobacteria) waterbloom in the western Gulf of Finland, Baltic Sea, in August 1999. Phycologia in press. | |
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| Additional information: | Kit: ELISA. EnviroLogix microcystin plate kit. | |||||||||||
| Economic losses: | None | |||||||||||
| Management decision: | None | |||||||||||
| Additional harmful effect information: | Mussels dived from coastal stations within the regions given above. Fish caught by fishermen. Toxin detected in flounder, blue mussel and the clam Macoma Balthica. Phytoplankton contained high amounts of Nodularia spumigena with nodularin in the range of | |||||||||||
