| Event name: | US-16-040 | |
| Country: | UNITED STATES | |
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Nature of the harmful event: |
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Event directly affected: |
Natural Fish , Shellfish , Aquatic Mammals , Humans | |
| Toxicity detected: | Yes (Approximate range: <20-156 mouse units per 100g shellfish tissue) | |
| Associated syndrome: | NSP | |
| Unexplained toxicity: | No | |
| Species implicated in toxin transmission (transvector): | no documented human illnesses | |
| Report the outcome of a monitoring programme: | Yes (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute /Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services) | |
| Event occurred before in this location: | Yes (annually) | |
| Individuals to contact: | HUBBARD, Katherine | |
| Location: | Latitude: 27.000000, Longitude: | |
| General location information: |
Southwest Florida (Pinellas, Hillsborough, Manatee, Sarasota, Charlotte, Lee, Collier, Monroe counties), West Coast of Florida HAB Area code(s): US-16 |
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| Additional location information: | for the 2015/2016 season: 9/14/2015-05/12/2016; for the 2016-2017 season, 9/9/16-present (March 2017 at time of writing) | |
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| Causative organism known: | Yes | |
| Causative Species/Genus: |
Karenia brevis
(60,408,023 cells/L)
NSP Producer |
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| Chlorophyll concentration, if known: | µg/l | |
| Additional bloom information: | bloom primarily spanned inshore and coastal waters but was spatially and temporally patchy | |
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| Bloom location in the water column: | Whole column | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Growth: |
Advected
In situ |
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| Kit used: No | Type of kit used: | |||||||||||
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| Economic losses: | Shellfish harvest is banned when K. brevis exceed 5,000 cells/L. Areas are reopened when K. brevis is <5,000 cells/L and shellfish are <20MU/100g. In this case, harvest was closed for cells concentrations but no toxicity was measured when shellfish tested | |||||||||||
| Management decision: | harvesting closures | |||||||||||
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