Monday 2/11

• HAB, harmful algae bloom, is an algae bloom causes negative impacts to other organisms via production of natural toxins, mechanical damage to other organisms, or anything else in the water.
• Blooms of harmful algae can have large and varied impacts on marine ecosystems, depending on the species involved, the environment where they are found, and the mechanism by which they exert negative effects.
• Scientist are not really sure on whether HAB's even occur in the ocean, therefore they really have no idea what to really do to stop it. They feel that the occuring of HABs are increasing by a large amount, but only because observations have been starting to be noted more to figure what is really causing HAB.
• When HAB occurs, usually yearly in the Gulf Coast, many fish seem to wash upon shore dead and for awhile at that. But the algae doesnt stop with just the fish in the ocean, people around or in the Gulf Coast get respiratory illnesses or many people just get horrible allergy symptoms.
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