Harmful algal blooms: a Malaysian scenario

Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) are worldwide problems. It is defined as proliferation of algae under certain environmental condition. The algae produce toxin that can be transmitted to human through many different ways. This leads to a lot of negative impacts to human health including mortalities. Howe...

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Main Authors: Mohammad Noor, Normawaty, Adam, Aimimuliani, Ahmad, Zuhairi, Saad, Shahbudin, Muhamad Bunnori, Noraslinda
Format: Proceeding Paper
Language:English
Published: 2019
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author Mohammad Noor, Normawaty
Adam, Aimimuliani
Ahmad, Zuhairi
Saad, Shahbudin
Muhamad Bunnori, Noraslinda
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Adam, Aimimuliani
Ahmad, Zuhairi
Saad, Shahbudin
Muhamad Bunnori, Noraslinda
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description Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) are worldwide problems. It is defined as proliferation of algae under certain environmental condition. The algae produce toxin that can be transmitted to human through many different ways. This leads to a lot of negative impacts to human health including mortalities. However, some do not produce toxin but the high cell numbers killed farmed fish by anoxic condition. In Malaysia, HABs have occurred more than a decade ago and till today the problem still exist particularly in Sabah coastal waters. In Peninsular Malaysia, HABs problem is more sporadic. Several HABs species have been identified as causative species i.e. Pyrodinium bahamensa var. compresssum, Cochlodinium polykrikoides, Alexandrium tamiyavanichii and A. minutum. As a result, loss amounting to thousands of Ringgit Malaysia was reported besides human illness. Furthermore, the event brings negative sentiments on seafood among consumers and caused decreasing in market value. Therefore, the objectives of the paper are to share experience on HAB problems in Malaysia particularly in Kuantan Port, Pahang and Sabah coastal waters and suggest ways to address the problems. The new development of WebApps is among the potential ways to minimize the impact on public and fisheries industry.
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spelling iium-778362020-02-19T03:39:43Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/77836/ Harmful algal blooms: a Malaysian scenario Mohammad Noor, Normawaty Adam, Aimimuliani Ahmad, Zuhairi Saad, Shahbudin Muhamad Bunnori, Noraslinda Q Science (General) Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) are worldwide problems. It is defined as proliferation of algae under certain environmental condition. The algae produce toxin that can be transmitted to human through many different ways. This leads to a lot of negative impacts to human health including mortalities. However, some do not produce toxin but the high cell numbers killed farmed fish by anoxic condition. In Malaysia, HABs have occurred more than a decade ago and till today the problem still exist particularly in Sabah coastal waters. In Peninsular Malaysia, HABs problem is more sporadic. Several HABs species have been identified as causative species i.e. Pyrodinium bahamensa var. compresssum, Cochlodinium polykrikoides, Alexandrium tamiyavanichii and A. minutum. As a result, loss amounting to thousands of Ringgit Malaysia was reported besides human illness. Furthermore, the event brings negative sentiments on seafood among consumers and caused decreasing in market value. Therefore, the objectives of the paper are to share experience on HAB problems in Malaysia particularly in Kuantan Port, Pahang and Sabah coastal waters and suggest ways to address the problems. The new development of WebApps is among the potential ways to minimize the impact on public and fisheries industry. 2019-08 Proceeding Paper NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/77836/1/77836_Harmful%20Algal%20Blooms_complete.pdf Mohammad Noor, Normawaty and Adam, Aimimuliani and Ahmad, Zuhairi and Saad, Shahbudin and Muhamad Bunnori, Noraslinda (2019) Harmful algal blooms: a Malaysian scenario. In: International Conference on Marine and Coastal Engineering and Sciences 2019, 23-24th August 2019, Emersia Hotel, Bandar Lampung, Indonesia. (Unpublished) http://icmaces.unila.ac.id/
spellingShingle Q Science (General)
Mohammad Noor, Normawaty
Adam, Aimimuliani
Ahmad, Zuhairi
Saad, Shahbudin
Muhamad Bunnori, Noraslinda
Harmful algal blooms: a Malaysian scenario
title Harmful algal blooms: a Malaysian scenario
title_full Harmful algal blooms: a Malaysian scenario
title_fullStr Harmful algal blooms: a Malaysian scenario
title_full_unstemmed Harmful algal blooms: a Malaysian scenario
title_short Harmful algal blooms: a Malaysian scenario
title_sort harmful algal blooms: a malaysian scenario
topic Q Science (General)
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http://irep.iium.edu.my/77836/1/77836_Harmful%20Algal%20Blooms_complete.pdf