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General Information

Event name: US-16-005
Country: UNITED STATES
Nature of the harmful event:
 High Phyto concentration
Event directly affected:
Toxicity detected: Yes (Approximate range: omoic acid detected in water and oyster tissue samples, concentrations below 20 ppm)
Associated syndrome:
Unexplained toxicity: No
Species implicated in toxin transmission (transvector):
Report the outcome of a monitoring programme: Yes (Chesapeake Bay Water Quality Monitoring Program)
Event occurred before in this location: Yes (Historic data from the Chesapeake Bay Program suggestions blooms of Pseudo-nitzschia are not novel in this area.)
Individuals to contact: WOLNY, Jennifer

Location & Date

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Location: Latitude: , Longitude:
General location information: Tangier and Pocomoke Sounds, MD-VA border, Chesapeake Bay
HAB Area code(s): US-10
Additional location information: detected from 3/17/2016-04/14/2016
Bloom event dates (yyyy/mm/dd): Start: 2016-03-17, End: 2016-04-14
Quarantine levels dates (yyyy/mm/dd):
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Microalgae

Causative organism known: Yes
Causative Species/Genus: Pseudo-nitzschia spp. (2884000 cells/L)
Bacillariophyta, not speciated with EM or genetics
Co-Ocurring Species/Genus:
Chlorophyll concentration, if known: µg/l
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Environmental Conditions

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Toxin Assay Information

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Created at 10:05 on 27 Feb 2017
Updated at 02:46 on 6 Feb 2020
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