| Event name: | KR-01-001 | |
| Country: | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF | |
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Nature of the harmful event: |
Water Discoloration , High Phyto concentration , Mass mortalities | |
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Event directly affected: |
Natural Fish , Aquaculture Fish | |
| Toxicity detected: | No | |
| Associated syndrome: | ||
| Unexplained toxicity: | ||
| Species implicated in toxin transmission (transvector): | ||
| Report the outcome of a monitoring programme: | Yes (NFRDI/Korea-HAB monitoring program) | |
| Event occurred before in this location: | Yes (This bloom has been initiated in this area in August since 1995.) | |
| Individuals to contact: | Kang, Y.S. | |
| Location: | Latitude: 34.583056, Longitude: | |
| General location information: |
Yeosu, Jeonnam province HAB Area code(s): KR-04 |
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| Additional location information: | patch with 10-200km length and 500m width | |
| Bloom event dates (yyyy/mm/dd): | Start: 2001-08-14, End: 2001-09-24 | |
| Quarantine levels dates (yyyy/mm/dd): | ||
| Additional date-related information: | ||
| Causative organism known: | Yes | |
| Causative Species/Genus: |
Cochlodinium polykrikoides
(29,000,000 cells/L)
monospecific bloom |
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| Co-Ocurring Species/Genus: | ||
| Chlorophyll concentration, if known: | µg/l | |
| Additional bloom information: | ||
| Event-related bibliography: | Details in daily HABs newsletter issued by NFRDIU and webpage(http://www.nfrdi.re.kr) | |
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| Nutrient information: |
PHOSPHATE:
0.6-1.2uM
DIN: 5-45uM |
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| Temperature Range During Event: | Max: 22 °C, Min: 28 °C | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Salinity Range During Event: | Max: 34, Min: 29 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bloom location in the water column: |
Surface Subsurface |
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| Growth: |
Advected
In situ |
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| Growth Comments | Extending to the Southern and eastern coast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Kit used: No | Type of kit used: | ||||||
| Additional information: | |||||||
| Economic losses: | culturing finfishes such as rockfish, flounder and seabream were died by suffocation when they were exposed to the dense bloom | ||||||
| Management decision: | |||||||
| Additional harmful effect information: | direct loss: USD 8,400,000 | ||||||
