| Event name: | AR-93-005 | |
| Country: | ARGENTINA | |
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Nature of the harmful event: |
Mass mortalities | |
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Event directly affected: |
Natural Fish | |
| Toxicity detected: | Yes (Approximate range: 2800 µg STX eq/100g tissue (stomach content)) | |
| Associated syndrome: | PSP | |
| Unexplained toxicity: | No | |
| Species implicated in toxin transmission (transvector): | ||
| Report the outcome of a monitoring programme: | No | |
| Event occurred before in this location: | No | |
| Individuals to contact: | SCHWEIBOLD Laura | |
| Location: | Latitude: , Longitude: | |
| General location information: |
El Rincon, Buenos Aires HAB Area code(s): AR-01 |
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| Additional location information: | on the continental shelf | |
| Bloom event dates (yyyy/mm/dd): |
Event Date:1993-09-17 Start: 1993-09-01, End: 1993-09-30 |
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| Quarantine levels dates (yyyy/mm/dd): | ||
| Additional date-related information: | Event date = first mortalities observed | |
| Causative organism known: | Yes | |
| Causative Species/Genus: |
Alexandrium tamarense
(3.45x10^5 cells/L)
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| Chlorophyll concentration, if known: | µg/l | |
| Additional bloom information: | ||
| Event-related bibliography: | Montoya, N.G., R. Akselman, J. Franco, and J.I. Carreto. 1996. Paralytic shellfish toxins and mackerel (Scomber japonicus) mortality in the Argentine Sea. Pp. 417–420 in Harmful and Toxic Algal Blooms. T. Yasumoto, Y. Oshima, and Y. Fukuyo, eds, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, Paris. | |
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| Additional information: | 2800, 500, 361 and 72 µg STX eq/100 g tissue were found in stomach contents, intestine, liver and gills respectively. | ||||||||||||||||
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| Additional harmful effect information: | massive mortality of mackerel | ||||||||||||||||
