General Information

Event name: US-16-040
Country: UNITED STATES
Nature of the harmful event:
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 & Date

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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
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)
Bloom event dates (yyyy/mm/dd):
Quarantine levels dates (yyyy/mm/dd):
Additional date-related information:

Microalgae

Causative organism known: Yes
Causative Species/Genus: Karenia brevis (60,408,023 cells/L)
NSP Producer
Co-Ocurring Species/Genus:
Chlorophyll concentration, if known: µg/l
Additional bloom information: bloom primarily spanned inshore and coastal waters but was spatially and temporally patchy
Event-related bibliography:

Environmental Conditions

Weather: Turbidity (NTU): Wind direction:
Stratified water: Oxygen content (nL/L): Wind velocity:
Temperature (°C): Oxygen saturation %: Current Direction:
Sechhi disk (m): Salinity: Current Velocity:
Nutrient information:
Temperature Range During Event: Max: °C, Min: °C
Salinity Range During Event:
Bloom location in the water column: Whole column
Growth: Advected
In situ
Growth Comments
Additional Environmental information:

Toxin Assay Information

Species containing the toxin Toxin type Toxin details Max. concentration Assay type
Crassostrea virginica Brevetoxins 156 MU/100g Bioassay-Mouse
Kit used: No Type of kit used:
Additional information:
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
Additional harmful effect information:
Created at 03:37 on 6 Apr 2023
Updated at 03:45 on 6 Apr 2023
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