UNESCO Harmful Algae News NO.16

Heterosigma bloom and associated fish kill, P. K, Hershberger, J. E., Rensel, J. R. Postel & F. B. Taub …………………………………………………………………..……………..1

ECOHAB Program underway, Kevin Sellner ……………………………………………. 1

PSP Outbreak in Brazil, Luis Proenga, Leonardo Rörig, Marcio Silva & Silvio Guimaráes ………………………...1

Twenty-seven countries meet to discuss HAB priorities, Adriana Zingone & Rhodora V. Azanza ………………………………2

Ceratium hirundinella blooms in Argentine reservoirs, José M Guerrero & Ricardo O Echenique …………………………3

The unique microreticulate cyst? (Spain), Isabel Bravo ………………………………………………………………….4

Fourteen South Americans trained on HAB, Clarisse Oderbrecht …………………………………………………………….5

Book review: Patterns in the Ocean: Ocean Processes and Marine Population Dynamics, Andrew Bakun & Ian Jenkinson ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… 6

Fish kill by Prymnesium, Tore Lindholm…………………………………………………………………………………….7

Blooms in Thermaikos Bay (Greece) Georgios Nikolaidis & Athanasios Evagelopoulos.......................8 

Early reports of PSP (Scotland), Allan W. Berry………………………………………………… 8

Modelling the kinetics of PSP toxin uptake and release in mussels, Angeles Moroño & Juan Blanco..................10 

New regional emergence of cyanobacterial toxicosis (South Africa), William R. Harding….................................12

Highlights of VIII International Conference on Harmful Algae, Beatriz Reguera ……........................................14

Future events ...................................................................24