THE BLUE GREEN ALGAL BLOOM IN THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF CUKAI BAY FACING THE SOUTH CHINA SEA

摘要

Since the early 1990's, large areas of mangrove forest along the nearshore waters of Cukai bay had been clewared to give way for the development of aquaculture activities, human settlement and setting up of new small scale fish processing industries. The Cukai bya, facing the South China Sea, has inflows from the Cukai river estuaries and other numerous small river tributaries. The water quality examined (April 1993 to March 1994) in the bay indicated that the ammonium, nitrate and phosphorus contents were highd during the pre-wet monsoom (October 1993) with values of 28.2, 30.1 and 29.6μg L~-1, respectively.