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HAMM 2001 Conference Program Development

Draft Program Schedule

The program will be built around discussion sessions, which will in turn be built around key lectures. Posters will be the primary mode for individual presentation, to facilitate communication and encourage discussion.

The program focuses on new technology, design and implementation of HAB monitoring; mitigation, prevention and prediction of HABs; and the approaches for control and management on HAB. The following topics will be included in the discussion sessions.

These are the Abstracts for oral and poster presentation that have been submitted (96 as of 05-Nov-2001). They are listed by first author and title.

Please send all topic and discussion additions and suggestions to Dr. Sherwood Hall:

Tel: 1 202 205 4818
Fax: 1 202 205 4881
Email: spindrift@erols.com

Conference Program Structure
this will change as sections and details are added
use the links below to go directly to the subject of interest

Table of Contents:
  1. Analytical narratives of HAB events and management programs
  2. Management strategies for HABs
  3. Mitigation and control of HABs
  4. Regional cooperation
  5. HAB databases and data sharing on the World Wide Web
  6. Perspectives on EU policies on seafood toxins that affect exports to Europe
  7. Public education
  8. Current regulatory systems for seafood toxins
  9. Social, economic, and scientific challenges of HAB management in various regions
  10. The CODEX Alimentarius: Implications for seafood toxin regulation
  11. Sites relevant to HAMM resources, SEAPORT

  1. Analytical narratives of HAB events and management programs
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    Seafood Toxins:

    1. What can happen

      1. Hong Kong
      2. Central America - Costa Rica
      3. US - Washington State

    2. What works, and what doesn't work

      1. US - Maine
      2. New Zealand
      3. Ireland

    Direct HAB impacts on resources:

  • Management strategies for HABs
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    1. Environmental monitoring

      1. Plankton monitoring Biotoxin Quarterly Report (Jan-Mar 2001), California Dept. of Health Sciences (PDF format, 1230 Kb)
        NOTE: This is a large file that may load very slowly!

      2. Remote sensing

        1. satellite
        2. aircraft
        3. remote data buoys

      3. Roles and responsibilities

        1. regulatory agencies
        2. researchers
        3. communities/volunteers

      4. Can the roles and responsibilities of environmental monitoring programs be shared and coordinated among these sectors to provide for:

        1. monitoring programs that have superior temporal and geographic coverage,
        2. with appropriate training and QA/QC valid, robust data sets,
        3. the research community to be well grounded on the needs of the local HAB issues, and
        4. better public education.

    2. Toxicity testing

      1. Novel HAB toxins of concern to food safety
        1. Azaspiracid
      2. Developments in detection methods for HAB toxins
        1. Assays
          1. Jellett immunoassay for PSP
        2. Can LC/MS be a practical tool for biotoxin monitoring?

    3. Governments necessarily respond to crises. When a HAB crisis is thought to have passed, support for HAB management programs often dwindles. How can a management program be structured so that it provides adequate long term protection?

  • Mitigation and control of HABs
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    1. Prospects reducing HAB impacts by controlling eutrophication and other pollution

    2. Controlling the dispersion of HABs through ballast water and trade in live seafood

    3. Control of HABs through direct treatment

      1. Clay as a tool for suppressing HAB blooms

    4. Prediction and early warning of HAB

      1. What are the differences between prediction and early warning?
      2. Early warning
        1. cost and effectiveness current options
      3. Prediction
        1. progress in the development of predictive indices for HABs

    5. Contingency planning

  • Regional cooperation, including
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    1. International HAB programs

      1. IOC
      2. ASEAN

    2. Regional communication

    3. Sharing of technical resources

      1. APEC technical resource sharing
      2. IOC training programs

  • HAB databases and data sharing on the World Wide Web
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    1. Application of HAB information

      1. Possibilities, benefits, concerns, and limitations
      2. Historical records of events, outbreaks, and epidemiology
      3. Reports of current toxicity and environmental data
        1. Is it practical to have real-time web postings of environmental and regulatory data?
          1. Examples?

    2. What HAB database systems are currently available

      1. What are their goals?
      2. How well do they perform?
        1. Benefits?
        2. Advantages/disadvantages
        3. Limitations?
      3. How much do they cost?
      4. Are they likely to last?

    3. What is needed to strengthen these systems?

      1. Some possibilities:
        1. Work through international organizations (IOC, WHO, APEC)
        2. Direct linkage of individual governments

    4. An epidemiological database for illnesses from seafood toxins

      1. Benefits
        1. More effective treatment of human victims
        2. Better understanding of known toxin syndromes
        3. Prompt recognition of new toxin syndromes
        4. Basis for sound regulatory policy
      2. Concerns
        1. Sensitivity of governments to exposure of data

    5. Sites relevant to the discussion session on web resources:

      1. WHOI HAB site. Numerous sections and links: http://www.redtide.whoi.edu/hab/

      2. Gulf of Mexico Program HAB site. Large number of links:
      3. An example (good or bad?) of a site giving current geographic distributions
      4. Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference. An organization in the US concerned with shellfish sanitation, including marine biotoxins: http://www.issc.org/

      5. IOC HAB program http://ioc.unesco.org/hab/default.htm

      6. Mapping of harmful events related to phytoplankton blooms within the last ten years in Western Europe and North America. http://seafoodtoxinmedic.tripod.com

      7. Prototype seafood toxicity medical and epidemiology website designed by Leslie Cheong
      8. Maine Phytoplankton Monitoring Program. This site will house data from the volunteers. http://www.ume.maine.edu/ssteward/

      9. World class oceanographic research lab on the coast of Maine. The education section includes curriculum, facts and diagrams of phytoplankton. http://www.bigelow.org/index.html

      10. Description of the University of Maine portion of the ECOHAB project as it relates to the Gulf of Maine. http://grampus.umeoce.maine.edu/ECOHAB/ECOHAB-intro.htm

      11. Site maintained by Dr. David Townsend, Chair of the School of Marine Science at the University of Maine. Provides access to data from cruises. http://grampus.umeoce.maine.edu/ECOHAB/ecohab.htm

      12. The International Society for the Study of Harmful Algae (ISSHA) was founded in 1997, in response to a request from the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO for an international programme on harmful algae. (provided by Dr. Stephen S. Bates, Fisheries and Oceans Canada http://www.cbr.nrc.ca/issha

      13. PLANCTON ANDINO: Plankton Information from Chile
        The paper "A WIDESPREAD OUTBREAK OF A HAEMOLYTIC, ICHTHYOTOXIC GYMNODINIUM SP. IN SOUTHERN CHILE" by Alejandro Clément, Miriam Seguel, Geneviève Arzul, Leonardo Guzmán and César Alarcon is available http://www.plancton.cl/

        NOTE: This page should be viewed with Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE); sub-pages may not load properly in Netscape

  • Perspectives on EU policies on seafood toxins that affect exports to Europe
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    1. Status and rationale of EU policies

      1. recent and proposed developments regarding biotoxins

    2. EU policies as seen by European producers An example of a policy revision: Change in regulatory procedures for domoic acid in scallops

    3. EU policies as seen by APEC exporters

    4. EC Directive 91/492 is the original Directive on all shellfish hygiene issues, including biotoxins. The directive is available as a PDF file (145 Kb)

    5. The issues at the moment are the changes being proposed - like the ASP/Scallop tiered marketing regime and the YTX/etc proposals.

    6. EC documents (including a search capability) can be found at http://europa.eu.int/

    7. Some EC documents, possibly relevant:

      1. The Directive: 391L0492 (PDF file, 145 Kb)

      2. Council Directive 91/492/EEC of 15 July 1991 laying down the health conditions for the production and the placing on the market of live bivalve molluscs

        1. OJ L 268 24.09.1991 p.1
        2. Amended by 194N
        3. Incorporated by 294A0103(51) (OJ L 001 03.01.1994 p.220)
        4. Amended by 397L0061 (OJ L 295 29.10.1997 p.35)
        5. Amended by 397L0079 (OJ L 024 30.01.1998 p.31)

      3. 391L0493 (PDF file, 161 Kb)

      4. Council Directive 91/493/EEC of 22 July 1991 laying down the health conditions for the production and the placing on the market of fishery products

        1. OJ L 268 24.09.1991 p.15
        2. Amended by 194N
        3. Incorporated by 294A0103(51) (OJ L 001 03.01.1994 p.220)
        4. Implemented by 394D0356 (OJ L 156 23.06.1994 p.50)
        5. Derogation in 394D0941 (OJ L 366 31.12.1994 p.34)
        6. Amended by 395L0071 (OJ L 332 30.12.1995 p.40)
        7. See 396L0023 (OJ L 125 23.05.1996 p.10)
        8. Amended by 397L0079 (OJ L 024 30.01.1998 p.31)

  • Public education
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    1. (comments from Leonardo Guzman:)

      1. Status and rationale of informal and formal education (environmental education)

      2. Informal education: role of communication media, training courses, other media to disseminate information

      3. Formal education: strategies and didactic modules for primary and secondary levels (teachers and students); information and training

      4. Capabilities for specific groups (medical doctors, nurses, social workers, journalist, aquaculturists, tourism technichians and so on)

      5. The importance of HAB education from a systemic point of view

        1. (By which I mean that normally Hab problems are analysed from specific points of view, determined by specialization (reductionistic point of view) and it is quite important, to mantain a general view of the problem, considering different aspects, as economy, social topics, fisheries, education, role of the press, etc, and this can be afforded by a systemic point of view, an holistic point of view.

        2. A specialist on dinoflagellates could be very important to give you comprehensive information related to reproductive behaviour as an example, but has a very poor idea of many other effects that are recieved by the ecosystem, at the same time many other specialists, can be very succesful in their specific areas, but normally is loosed the general view of the forest, because you are specialist in leaves, or other specific topics

  • Current regulatory systems for seafood toxins
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    1. China

    2. Chinese Taipei

    3. Hong Kong

    4. New Zealand

    5. Canada

    6. Great Britain

    7. Ireland

    8. United States
      1. The National Shellfish Sanitation Program: http://www.issc.org/index.htm

  • Social, economic, and scientific challenges of HAB management in various regions
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    1. Competition for resources- HABs vs. malaria and everything else

    2. technical infrastructure

    3. remote locations

      1. Marine biotoxin management in Alaska
      2. Philippines

    4. Regional coordination across national boundaries

  • The CODEX Alimentarius: Implications for seafood toxin regulation
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    1. CODEX- what is it and how does it relate?

    2. Criteria for detection methods

    3. The CODEX and WHO/FAO risk analysis framework for controlling chemical contaminants and microbiological hazards in food

  • Sites relevant to HAMM resources, SEAPORT:
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    1. taxonomy and other links http://thalassa.gso.uri.edu/flora/ppl.htm
      http://www.cttmar.univali.br/algas/, Toxic Algae (Algas Nocivas, in Portuguese)
      http://www.floridamarine.org/, Florida Marine Research Institute

    2. taxonomy http://thalassa.gso.uri.edu/ESphyto/list/taxa/tsiraspp/tsiraspp.htm
      http://thalassa.gso.uri.edu/HABChaet/index.html

    3. Swift FM31 field microscope
    4. large range of relevant links http://www.csc.noaa.gov/crs/habf/links2.html

    5. EPA volunteer monitoring site http://www.epa.gov/OWOW/monitoring/vol.html

    6. A BLM-sponsored nature center http://www.sciencecenter.ak.blm.gov/

    7. the South Carolina phytoplankton monitoring network http://www.chbr.noaa.gov/CoastalResearch/SCPMN/SCPMNmain.htm

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