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Channel Islands neighborhood warns of algal bloom, low dissolved oxygen in harbor; remediation work ongoing
Summary
Chuck Carter and Tom McAnally of the Channel Islands Neighborhood Council updated the INCO on June 4 about an algal bloom affecting Oxnard harbor and the wider California coast.
Chuck Carter and Tom McAnally of the Channel Islands Neighborhood Council updated the INCO on June 4 about an algal bloom affecting Oxnard harbor and the wider California coast.
“There’s an algal bloom… there’s an algal bloom called Pseudonitzschia. That’s the one that’s toxic and that’s what they call a harmful algal bloom, HAB,” Carter said, describing how domoic acid from that plankton can bioaccumulate up the food chain and cause seizures and disorientation in sea lions, dolphins and birds. Carter said volunteers and responders had buried more than 100 sea lions since February and reported other marine mammal and bird impacts.
Carter described harbor…
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