Abstract
RED water, caused primarily by a very high concentration of the dinoflagellate Gonyaulax polygramma Stein, associated with another dinoflagellate, Prorocentrum micans Ehrb., in smaller numbers, appeared in False Bay, near Cape Town, during March and the early part of April 1962. This bloom resulted in a mass-mortality of fish and marine invertebrates, when the dinoflagellates died in large numbers.
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GRINDLEY, J., TAYLOR, F. Red Water and Mass-Mortality of Fish near Cape Town. Nature 195, 1324 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/1951324a0
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