| Event name: | US-06-015 | |
| Country: | UNITED STATES | |
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Nature of the harmful event: |
Water Discoloration , High Phyto concentration , Seafood toxins , Mass mortalities | |
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Event directly affected: |
Natural Fish , Shellfish , Humans | |
| Toxicity detected: | Yes (Approximate range: Up to 81 mouse units in tests conducted by TX) | |
| Associated syndrome: | NSP , Aerosolized toxins effects | |
| Unexplained toxicity: | No | |
| Species implicated in toxin transmission (transvector): | No reported cases of NSP. | |
| Report the outcome of a monitoring programme: | No | |
| Event occurred before in this location: | Yes (Texas red tides occur every few years, increasing in frequency.) | |
| Individuals to contact: | Byrd, Meridith | |
| Location: | Latitude: , Longitude: | |
| General location information: |
Texas coast and the Gulf of Mexico, Texas HAB Area code(s): US-18 |
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| Additional location information: | Approximately 175 miles of Texas gulf coastline, corpus christi bay (497 sq km), Aransas Bay (70 sq mi), Espiritu Santo Bay (80 sq mi). All three are semi-enclosed estuaries. | |
| Bloom event dates (yyyy/mm/dd): |
Event Date:2006-10-02 Start: 2006-10-10, End: 2007-02-14 |
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| Additional date-related information: | Bloom began 29 sept 2006 at port aransas, TX. Persisted in the port aransas area while moving up the Texas coast along the gulf and bay sides of San Jose and Matagorda islands and south along the gulf side of Mustang and Padre islands to the jetties at port mansfield. no discolored water or other signs of bloom after late october, though low levels continued to be detected in corpus christi bay through december. Waters remained closed to shellfish harvesting from 1 november 2006 to 14 february 2007. | |
| Causative organism known: | Yes | |
| Causative Species/Genus: |
Karenia brevis
(5.0x10^7 cells/L)
This number occurred at Cole Park, Corpus Christi Bay |
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| Chlorophyll concentration, if known: | µg/l | |
| Additional bloom information: | Trichodesmium and Karenia mikimotoi were also seen in conjunction with K. brevis. | |
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| Temperature Range During Event: | Max: 33 °C, Min: 17 °C | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Salinity Range During Event: | Max: 38, Min: 22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bloom location in the water column: |
Surface |
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| Additional Environmental information: | Bloom began in late summer. Temps and salinity readings were taken very sporadically and may not be the true minimums and maximums. Also, only surface sampling was done so it is not known if a subsurface bloom occurred. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Kit used: No | Type of kit used: | |||||||||||
| Additional information: | The texas department of state health services conducted mouse bioassays on oyster tissue and used these numbers to close some texas bays to shellfish harvesting from Nov 1, 2005 - feb 12, 2006. | |||||||||||
| Economic losses: | The south padre island convention and visitors bureau compared hotel occupancy numbers from 2004 and 2005 and found that from 9/15/05 to 10/25/05 there were 32 days where occupancy was less than the previous year. Some days the numbers were substantial, | |||||||||||
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