Giant Bloom Signals Change in the Gulf of Maine

Giant bloom signals change in the Gulf of Maine

Today's Image of the Day from NASA Earth Observatory features a large phytoplankton bloom in the Gulf of Maine.

Algae heading north - Yorke Peninsula Country Times

PORT RICKABY and Port Wakefield residents have expressed their concerns about effects of the algal bloom reaching their shores as elevated chlorophyll-a levels are recorded. The algae indicator is high in north-eastern Gulf St Vincent, Department...

Tourism blues as bloom remains, spreads I Australian Rural & Regional News

Sarah Herrmann, Yorke Peninsula Country Times Businesses on southern Yorke Peninsula have been hit by a tourism downturn amid the ongoing algal bloom. Stansbury has been affected by brevetoxin, closing the town’s oyster farms for over six weeks, which Dalrymple Hotel owner Rob Rankine said had influenced visitation to the town. Trying times. Dalrymple Hotel, Stansbury, owner Rob Rankine says his takings are down almost 10 per cent compared to th…