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Dept: Red tide detected in Sabah waters

Sabah Daily Express, 12 December 2012 Kota Kinabalu: The State Fisheries Department issued a red tide warning, Wednesday, advising the public to refrain immediately from consuming any type of shellfish or bivalves obtained from the sea. This includes oysters (tiram), mussels (kupang), cockles (kerang) and any type of clam-like seafood. Its Director, Rayner Stuel Galid (pic), said a year-long Red Tide Monitoring Programme conducted by the department, in collaboration with the State Health Department, has detected the presence of Paralytic Shell Fish Poisoning (PSP) toxins in samples of bivalves (kerang) from waters of certain parts of the State's west coast. He said the samples taken from Kuala Penyu (particularly Sitompok Lake area) and from waters off Kota Kinabalu, including Gaya Island, Sepanggar Bay (including Kuala Menggatal) and Likas Bay, as well as Papar, Putatan and Tuaran districts have shown to contain toxic levels of PSP tox

Phytoplankton bloom at Sulu Sea change the Blur Sea to Green Color

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Phytoplankton bloom at Sulu Sea end of Nov 2012

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Sea Surface Temperature at Sulu Sea and Typhoon Bopha

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Satellite image of Chlorophyll a at Sulu Sea and Typhoon Bopha

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Chlorophyll a at Sulu Sea by Typhoon Bopha

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SDPSRTS A2012337062500.L2_LAC.Southern_Vietnam.chlor_a.png

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SDPSRTS A2012338053000.L2_LAC.N_Borneo.chlor_a.png

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The attached MODIS-Aqua image(s) were generated by the automated Ocean-Color Data Processing System (ODPS).   There is a color bar legend on the Ocean Color Home Page if you chose not to have the color bar appended to the image: http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/SeaWiFS/HTML/colorbars.html Regards from the Ocean Biology Processing Group