{"id":10765,"date":"2015-08-05T06:58:50","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T11:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10765"},"modified":"2015-08-05T06:58:50","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T11:58:50","slug":"toxic-algae-blooming-off-west-coast-endangering-marine-life-and-forcing-seafood-bans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10765","title":{"rendered":"Toxic algae blooming off West Coast endangering marine life and forcing seafood bans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"story-headline\">\n<h3 class=\"story-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/toxic-algae-blooming-off-west-coast-endangering-marine-life-and-forcing-seafood-bans-1.3179591\" target=\"_blank\">Toxic algae blooming off West Coast endangering marine life and forcing seafood bans<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"story-deck\"><strong>Algae bloom is 64 km wide and 198 metres deep in places<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A vast bloom of toxic algae off the West Coast is denser, more widespread and deeper than scientists feared even weeks ago, according to surveyors aboard a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research vessel.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>This coastal ribbon of microscopic algae, up to 64 kilometres wide\u00a0and 198 metres deep in places, is flourishing amid unusually warm Pacific Ocean temperatures. It now stretches from at least California to Alaska and has shut down lucrative fisheries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Shellfish managers on\u00a0Tuesday doubled the area off Washington&#8217;s coast that is closed to\u00a0Dungeness crab fishing, after finding elevated levels of marine\u00a0toxins in tested crab meat.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/1.3116914\"><strong>Toxic algae bloom off West Coast might be largest ever<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/1.3117687\">Toxic algae blooms: What you should know about the mysterious phenomena<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So-called &#8220;red tides&#8221; are cyclical and have happened many times\u00a0before, but ocean researchers say this one is much larger and\u00a0persisting much longer, with higher levels of neurotoxins bringing\u00a0severe consequences for the Pacific seafood industry, coastal\u00a0tourism and marine ecosystems.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Ayres, coastal shellfish manager for the Washington\u00a0Department of Fish and Wildlife, said the area now closed to crab\u00a0fishing includes more than half the state&#8217;s 253-kilometre-long coast, and\u00a0likely will bring a premature end to this year&#8217;s crab season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We think it&#8217;s just sitting and lingering out there,&#8221; said\u00a0Anthony Odell, a University of Washington research analyst who is\u00a0part of the U.S.&#8217;s\u00a0National\u00a0Oceanic and\u00a0Atmospheric Association-led team surveying the harmful algae bloom, which was\u00a0first detected in May. &#8220;It&#8217;s farther offshore, but it&#8217;s still\u00a0there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toxic algae blooming off West Coast endangering marine life and forcing seafood bans Algae bloom is 64 km wide and 198 metres deep in places A vast bloom of toxic algae off the West Coast is denser, more widespread and deeper than scientists feared even weeks ago, according to surveyors aboard a National Oceanic and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[103,3544,3000,2039,369,1273,4773,7875,6522,7874,6269],"class_list":["post-10765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-canada","tag-cbc","tag-cbc-news","tag-fisheries","tag-global-warming","tag-ocean-warming","tag-pacific-ocean","tag-seafood","tag-toxic-algae","tag-toxic-algae-bloom","tag-west-coast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10766,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10765\/revisions\/10766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}