Overview The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science has completed an assessment of current research findings on endocrine disruption in fresh and saltwater fish species. Conducted jointly by Anthony S. Pait, of NOAA and Judd O. Nelson, of the University of Maryland, the 55-page report (NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS NCCOS CCMA [...]
Overview NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science is sponsoring the multi-year, interdisciplinary Northern Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ecosystem Research Project, with the ultimate goal of enabling improved predictions of future effects of nutrient loading, eutrophication, hypoxia, and climate change on the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem. Background The incidence of severe oxygen depletion, either hypoxia [...]
The singled-celled organism, Pfiesteria piscicida, associated with fish kills and human health problems in the mid-1990s in North Carolina and Maryland has a very simple life cycle, say scientists from the Commerce Department’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). This conclusion is based on results of a new federally funded and peer-reviewed study published in [...]
Late every summer along the Florida Gulf coast, state managers anticipate the arrival of a red tide. The organism that causes red tide, a microscopic alga called Karenia brevis, produces a toxin that has many hazards. The toxin makes shellfish dangerous to eat. It causes fish kills, has been found to kill dolphins and manatees, [...]
Fish populations around the globe are in decline and many governments are working on strategies to help them recover. In particular trouble are stocks of tropical reef fish that suffering from the decline in coral reefs and over-fishing. A part of our new strategy is providing protection for special parts of the coastal ocean as [...]
Phytoplankton, the tiny, floating plants that live in both freshwater and marine environments, can multiply into dense concentrations or blooms. A number of these species produce toxins that cause a variety of human diseases through inhaling toxins that might be in aerosol form along beaches or in consuming bivalve shellfish or some fish species which [...]