UNESCO Harmful Algae News NO.17
Authors/Creators
- 1. Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas
- 2. Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Oceanográfico de Vigo
Description
Low oxygen, rock lobster strandings and PSP (South Africa), Grant Pitcher & A. C. Cockcroft …..............................................1
Another outbreak of PSP in India, Indrani Kamnasagar, Biju Joseph, K.K. Philipose & Iddya Karunasagar .................................….1
Gymnodinium sp. linked to fish kills (New Zealand), F. Hoe Chang, John McKoy & Michael Uddstrom .................................….1
Major study on Alexandrium (USA ECOHAB), Kevin Sellner ……………..................................................................……… 2
Iberoamerican cooperation on HAB Training (Spain), Jorge Diogene……………….................................……. 2
France new observations of Raphidophyceae (France), Chantal Billard, Evelyne Erard-Le Denn & Marie-Pierre Crassous……………………………………………………………….................................….5
Recurrent observations of a Gymnodinium breve-like species (France), Elisabeth Nézan …........................................................7
A Global Survey on harmful algal events (ICES-IOC), Patrick Gentien ……….................................…….7
Fibrocapsa japonica and Heterosigma akashiwo: new observations, Marion Rademaker, Marcus Reckermann, Urban Tillmann, Anette Tillmann-Mayer, Franciscus Colijn, Wanda Zevenboom & Piet Houpt……………………….................................………. ….8
Okadaic acid and carcinogenesis, V. Fessard …...................................................................10
Saxitoxin regulations, Ralf Trapp ……….....................................................….. 12
Re-occurrence of Winter Toxicity (Ireland), Terry McMahon & Joe Silke…….................................….12
Sea lion mass mortalities (New Zealand), Mike Donoghue ……….................................……13
First regional HAB initiative (South Pacific) Jorge Diogene & Yasuwo Fukuyo……………….13
Small-scale physics and harmful algae, Patrick Gentien …….................................…… 14
International Conference on Molluscan Shellfish Safety (Philippines), Rhodora V. Azanza….................................15
Multimedia dinoflagellate identification (Dinoflagellates on cd-rom), Rose A. Gulledge & Maria A, Faust …................................. . 16
The Fourth WESTPAC Scientific Symposium, Yasuwo Fukuyo & Rhodora V. Azanza …….................................….18
New HAB experimental facility (Gulf of Mexico), Richard Greene….................................…….19
HAB ART: Algal sculptures, Sandra Shumway….................................….19
Future events ....................................................................................................................................20