Latest results from the South Australian Algal Bloom Water Testing and Monitoring Program on November 4 showed that there was zero Karenia detected at 14 out of 21 metropolitan onshore sites.

In the state government’s weekly algal bloom update it said this was a sharp reduction compared to results from October 21, when there were six sites recorded with more than a million cells of Karenia per litre.

The positive comes as new research led by University of Technology Sydney professor Shauna Murray indicated that algal species Karenia cristata wa s the source of brevetoxins within the algal bloom.

Today’s update from Environment Minister Lucy Hood MP and South Australian Research and Development Institute executive director, Professor Mike Steer, also comes as the State’s Algal Bloom Co

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