| Event name: | SV-09-001 | |
| Country: | EL SALVADOR | |
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Nature of the harmful event: |
Water Discoloration , Seafood toxins | |
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Event directly affected: |
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| Toxicity detected: | Yes (Approximate range: 151 to 1427 STX eq/100 g in shellfish) | |
| Associated syndrome: | PSP | |
| Unexplained toxicity: | No | |
| Species implicated in toxin transmission (transvector): | ||
| Report the outcome of a monitoring programme: | Yes | |
| Event occurred before in this location: | Yes (Similar events that cover the entire coast of El Salvador have been reported before) | |
| Individuals to contact: | AMAYA-MONTERROSA, Oscar , QUINTANILLA, Rebeca | |
| Location: | Latitude: , Longitude: | |
| General location information: |
, HAB Area code(s): ELS-01 ELS-02 ELS-03 ELS-04 ELS-05 ELS-06 |
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| Additional location information: | The bloom presumably covered the entire coast of the country, but some sites reported higher cell abundance and toxicity, sucha as Mizata, Los Cóbanos and Jiqulisco. Water discoloration was also found 68km off the coast. | |
| Bloom event dates (yyyy/mm/dd): |
Event Date:2009-11-01 Start: 2009-11-01, End: 2010-06-08 |
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| Causative organism known: | Yes | |
| Causative Species/Genus: |
Pyrodinium bahamense
(40000000 cells/L)
Two varities of P. bahamense were found: compressum and bahamense |
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| Chlorophyll concentration, if known: | µg/l | |
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| Event-related bibliography: | Licea, S., Navarrete, A., Castañeda, V. and J. Bustillos-Guzmán. 2013. Monitoring Program for Harmful Algal Blooms in Salvadoran Waters: Report of Pyrodinium bahamense from November 2009 to June 2010. Proceeding of the 14th International Conference on Harmful Algae. Espinoza, Jaime, Oscar Amaya, and Rebeca Quintanilla. 2013. Atlas de Fitoplancton Marino. 1st Ed. San Salvador: Universidad de El Salvador. 52p. | |
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| Additional information: | Toxicity factors to transform the analogs to saxitoxin equivalents were those given by Oshima (1995). | ||||||||||||||||
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