Algal bloom

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bpmurray
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Algal bloom

#1 Post by bpmurray »

I heard from a friend that the EPA had warned of an algal bloom on the east coast so I tweeted to them today. They replied:
There is an algal bloom of Phaeocystis - not harmful. Progress can be viewed on Marine Institute website http://www.marine.ie/Home/site-area/dat ... b-bulletin
I presume this means that although it's harmless (apart from folk freaking at goop on the beaches) the fish will head offshore into deeper, better oxygenated water.
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Re: Algal bloom

#2 Post by Paddy002 »

lucky fish! not so lucky for any farmers cultivating shell fish on our shores as it has the potential to wipe out stocks incurring massive losses to the producers
2019 Species:
Codling, Whiting

2017 Species:
Mackerel, Dog Fish, Whiting, 3 bearded rockling

2016 Species:
Pouting, Cod, Coalfish, LSD, macks, pollock, dogfish, Bass, Eel, Garfish, Ling, conger, yellow fin tuna, Skipjack Tuna, parrot fish, Trigger fish, Scad, Conger, whiting

2015 species:
Codling, sea bass, mack's, flounder, Dab, three bearded rockling, coalfish, dog fish, bull huss, ballen wrasse, Pollock, European eel, cuckoo wrasse, ling, conger,scorpion fish, cod, pouting, blue shark, whiting

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