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Within the Southern California Bight, a sub-region of the California Current has unique physical properties. Upwelling is fairly weak in the California Bight and Smith and Eppley (1982) stated that the 16-year average for primary production was 0.402 grams carbon/(meter-squared × day), or approximately 150 grams carbon/(meter-squared × year).
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Though red tide levels in Bay County have subsided over the past few weeks, a visiting fisherman says the recent flare up ruined fall fishing in PCB.
Now Red Tide might be Pasco County’s problem, too. Three water samples taken off the southernmost tip of the Pasco coastline revealed the microorganism Karenia brevis, which causes the toxic ...
Red Tide caused by dinoflagellates. Picture taken off the coast of San Diego, California. Neurotoxic shellfish poisoning (NSP) is caused by the consumption of brevetoxins, which are marine toxins produced by the dinoflagellate Karenia brevis (among several others). These toxins can produce a series of gastrointestinal and neurological effects.
Red tide off Scripps Institution of Oceanography Pier, La Jolla, California, United States. Ocean water can appear red if there is a bloom of a specific kind of phytoplankton causing a discoloration of the sea surface. [22] These events are called "Red tides."
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