CHILE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY ALGAL BLOOM
June 1st, 2006
STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL
FISH farmers in southern Chile are being offered space technology to protect themselves from Harmful Algal Blooms that swarm off the country's southern coasts, costing the region's 360 fish farms millions of dollars in lost stocks. The blooms not only poison healthy seawater, they suck in oxygen, asphyxiating caged fish that cannot escape. The key to dealing with this menace is early warning of bloom development, allowing farmers to move their stocks, and that is where the European Space Agency-funded Chilean Aquaculture Project comes ...
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