Bloom of Alexandrium fraterculus in coastal waters off Itajaí, SC, Southern Brazil

Abstract

2004 and they were sampled in the adjacent beach of Atalaia the day after. These beaches are adjacent to the Itajai-acu estuary (Fig. 1). Ten days later, discoloured water was spotted again and sampled in the Cabecudas beach. Another set of samples from the weekly monitoring programme (WMP), collected between August 12