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OCEAN SCIENCE JOURNAL
Volume 53, Issue 1, Pages 143-147Publisher
KOREA OCEAN RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT INST
DOI: 10.1007/s12601-017-0059-7
Keywords
harmful algae; phytoplankton bloom; chlorophyll-a; Bay of Bengal
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The present paper reports on the phenomenon of pinkish-red discoloration of the nearshore water of Puri, Odisha on 12(th) May 2016. Many local newspapers covered this event, as Puri city is a major tourist and pilgrimage place on the east coast of India. Field observations were carried out in order to provide a scientific basis to the event and to elicit possible causes of this discoloration. Taxonomic analysis of the phytoplankton samples revealed the dominance of red colored dinoflagellate species Gonyaulax polygramma, contributing 90% to total phytoplankton population. The localized concentration of G. polygramma was responsible for the pinkish-red discoloration of nearshore water. The exact factor that lay behind the genesis of this bloom could not be delineated due to the short period of its persistence. But two factors - upwelling and anthropogenic nutrient influx - can be viewed as the main cause for this ephemeral bloom. Non-hypoxic conditions in the coastal water following the ephemeral bloom event indicated no significant risk of ecological deterioration to the ambient medium.
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