| Event name: | ITA-81-001 | |
| Country: | ITALY | |
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Nature of the harmful event: |
Water Discoloration , High Phyto concentration | |
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Event directly affected: |
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| Toxicity detected: | No | |
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| Unexplained toxicity: | ||
| Species implicated in toxin transmission (transvector): | ||
| Report the outcome of a monitoring programme: | No | |
| Event occurred before in this location: | Yes (The year before the same bloom was detected. Not happened later on) | |
| Individuals to contact: | ZINGONE, Adriana | |
| Location: | Latitude: 40.670000, Longitude: 14.740000 | |
| General location information: |
Vietri sul Mare (Salerno), Gulf of Salerno, Tyrrhenian Sea HAB Area code(s): ITA-012 |
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| Additional location information: | The area is close to the harbour of Salerno. There are beach and tourism activity in the zone | |
| Bloom event dates (yyyy/mm/dd): |
Event Date:1981-07-15 |
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| Quarantine levels dates (yyyy/mm/dd): | ||
| Additional date-related information: | the bloom lasted several days | |
| Causative organism known: | Yes | |
| Causative Species/Genus: |
Alexandrium balechii (Steidinger) Balech 1985
(40000000 cells/L)
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| Chlorophyll concentration, if known: | µg/l | |
| Additional bloom information: | Wide area covered, yellowish-brown aspect. The bloom was concentrated in the first centimeters depth during the day. Intense bioluminiscence was evident at night. | |
| Event-related bibliography: | Montresor, M., Marino, D., Zingone, A. & Dafnis, G. 1990. Three Alexandrium species from coastal Tyrrhenian waters (Mediterranean Sea). In: Granéli, E., Sundstrom, B., Edler, L. & Anderson, D. M. [Eds.] Toxic marine phytoplankton. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 82-87. | |
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| Bloom location in the water column: |
Surface |
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| Economic losses: | Probable, related to people not going to the beach | ||||||
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| Additional harmful effect information: | Blooms of this species were coincident with mass mortalities of fish in the type locality (Gulf of Mexico) in 1969-1970, probably due to oxigen depletion, but no harmful effects were reported for blooms of A. balechii in the Tyrrhenian Sea | ||||||
