Saturday, March 23, 2013

Harmful Algae Blooms

HAB is an algae bloom that causes negitive impacts on other organisms. HAB's cause large scale marine mortality and shellfish poisonings. They are caused by two species of dinoflagellates called gonyaulax and gymnodinium. You can prevent HAB by not using fertilizers and by not dumping sewage in the ocean. In the gulf coast HAB causes neuro toxic shellfish poisoning.

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