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Article: The growing problem of harmful algae: tiny plants pose a potent threat to those who live in and eat from the sea.
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- Oceanus
- Article date:
- March 22, 2005
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July and August 2004--At the height of the summer season, when New Englanders and thousands of tourists open their wallets to buy fresh "steamers" and fried clam strips, Maine's shellfish beds are shut down. Concerned by the worst bloom of toxic algae in 23 years, resource managers closed the flats for fear of paralytic shellfish poisoning. Hundreds of shellfishermen went without income for nearly two months at a time when they typically fill their bushel baskets and wallets. From Nova Scotia to Cape Cod, restaurateurs watched the price of clams jump by 200 percent. All of this was caused by a tiny microscopic organism, Alexandrium, which does not harm the clams but can ...
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Article: New marine instrument can detect harmful algae in ...
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...Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, April 13 -- Researchers and coastal managers detected a bloom of harmful marine algae in the Gulf of Mexico using an underwater microscope, which helped to prevent human consumption of tainted shellfish. Developed by
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