UNESCO Harmful Algae News NO.26

The coincidence of a Prymnesium parvum bloom and the mass kill of birds and fish in Lake Koronia, M. Moustaka-Gouni, C.M. Cook, S.Gkelis, E. Michaloud, K. Pantlelidakis, M. Pyrovetsi &  T. Lanaras……...................................... 1

Violet bloom produced by a cyanobacterium in a Guatemalan lagoon, Roberto Cortés-Altamirano & Lionel Carrillo Ovalle………..1

Fish kills or mass mortality events of fish. Monitoring of global fish kills and the life and work of Margarethe Brongersma-Sanders, S. Turner…….....................................................….3

Indian satellite IRS-P4 (OCEANSAT). Monitoring algal blooms in the Arabian Sea, S.G. Prabhu Matondkar, S.R. Bhat, R.M. Dwivedi & S.R. Nayak.................................................................….4

Further investigation on blooms of Ostreopsis ovata, Coolia monotis, Prorocentrum lima on the macroalgae of artificial and natural reefs in the Northern Tyrrhenian Sea, F. Simoni, C. di Paolo, L. Gori, L. Lepri, A. Mancino, F. Simoni, A. Falaschi …................5

Extensive blooms due to Cochlodinium polykrikoides: New to Costa Rica, M. Vargas-Montero, E. Freer, R. Jiménez-Montealegre & J.C. Guzmán........................................................…..7

Mortality caused by dinoflagellates bloom in Luanda, I. Menezes Rangel, J. Muai & S. Silva…...................................8

HABTech2003 Workshop, New Zealand, P. Holland, L. Rhodes & L. Brown.….........................................................9

GEOHAB. Open Science Meeting: HABs and Eutrophication, Ed Urban…............................................................10

ISSHA President’s Corner, Karen A. Steidinger……….....................................................................11