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The Threat Of Toxic Blue Green Algae

June 11, 2016 By Ryan Harris

toxic blue-green algae spreading.

Toxic blue-green algae hits Lake Erie.

(Mirror Daily, United States) – Lake Erie seems to suffer lately because of the toxic blue-green algae. Officials are trying to find the best strategies and develop efficient programs that will be successful in dealing with this algal bloom.

According to Sean Ryan, State Assemblyman, this problem must be quickly contained so that the toxic algae will not have the chance to spread and affect Western New York and Buffalo as well. Unfortunately, this issue took its toll on Ohio already.

However, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency is going to double its efforts to create new regulations and a good plan to tackle and prevent the spread of the toxic blue-green algae. Furthermore, Ohio farms will have to reduce the use of phosphorus on their land, but this is still not enough.

In addition to this, Ohio, Michigan, and Ontario promised to reduce phosphorus by 20 percent until 2020 and 40 percent until 2025

Phosphorus is a primary constituent for the toxic blue-green algae which has spread over the last few years in Lake Erie during summer. One drinking water plant in Toledo was closed in 2014 because of this problem.

Moreover, Buffalo relies on Lake Erie for the drinking water supplies. If this algal bloom doesn’t stop, many citizens will no longer be provided with drinking water. According to Jill Jedlicka, the executive director of Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper, it is impossible to depend on drinking water supplies which have an unhealthy source.

Toxic algal bloom is known to be a problem with which is hard to deal. Usually, the spread of the algae is stopped by sudden weather changes. For now, experts cannot predict at what extent this water ‘plague’ will affect the surrounding communities.

Both Lake Erie and the citizens depending on it have to suffer because of this problem. Fortunately, the toxic blue-green algae have not reached the shores of New York yet. The only bloom was spotted a few years ago, 90 miles away in Presque Isle Bay in Erie. Pa.

Experts advise people to stay away from the water. Most importantly children and dogs must be prevented from entering the water. It is known that the blue-green algae have a highly dangerous effect on dogs, most of the times, killing them. Hopefully, things will soon get better.

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Filed Under: Tech & Science Tagged With: algae, blue green, blue green algae, The Threat Of Toxic Blue Green Algae, toxic, toxic algae, toxic blue green algae, toxic blue green algae threat

Chiloe Island Needs Support

May 18, 2016 By John Birks

"fisherman, boat, fish, water"

Toxic Algae attacks Chiloe Island

(Mirror Daily, United States) – A disaster has recently hit the Chile’s coast area as the people living on the Chiloe Island can no longer provide food for themselves and their children.

These regions were once famous for their landscapes and rich wildlife, but now the situation is upside down. The source of this disaster comes from the invasion of a toxic blue-green algae which spread along the coast and poisoned the waters.

According to one of the Island’s residents, Marisol Millaquien, it has already been a few weeks since she was not able to work because of the foul smell and the scum along the coast, known as the ‘red tide.’

According to the fishermen, this plague of the waters is called the ‘quiet catastrophe,’ which is the worst red tide that ever occurred in the history of the island. The government was prompted to declare the area surrounding these islands as an emergency zone.

This type of algal bloom is lethal not only to fish but also for other marine animals and even birds. It poisones the waters by releasing a deadly toxin that attacks the central nervous system directly, paralyzing it. If humans consume any seafood, including shellfish, they might also get poisoned.

Marisol confessed that there has never been such a desolate view from her home as there have been other previous red tides but nothing as deadly as this one.

She and many other residents do not buy the global warming explanations. They also believe that not the El Niño phenomenon is to blame but the commercial salmon farms in Chile that dumped enormous quantities of contaminated fish near the coast. Another red tide killed millions of salmon last year after the level of oxygen in the water dropped off severely.

Because of this contamination, the Chiloe inhabitants are now unable to catch anything, meaning that they are threatened to die of hunger. They would have preferred to be hit by any other plague instead of this, because in that case, they could have still relied on seafood.

According to Millaquien, fishing is the primary activity that sustains the economy along Chile’s long coast. People have fallen into depression, children have no milk, bills started piling up, while the red tide might even last a few more months, according to the experts.

Fishermen have recently blocked the island from the mainland and used flamed barricades to ask for the government’s help.

However, Marisol thinks that she and the other residents of the Chiloe Island will not receive any help from the government. Even if she spent many years catching seafood, she is not listed in the official registry as eligible to receive aid and support.

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Filed Under: Health Tagged With: algae, Chile toxic algae, Chiloe, Chiloe Island, Chiloe Island help, Chiloe Island Needs Support, toxic algae

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