It’s hard to say at this point whether British Columbia farmers will be plagued by more harmful algal blooms (HABs) following the recent incident at a Grieg farm.
But Nicky Haigh, a BC-based senior phytoplankton analyst and CEO of Microthalassia Consultants, told IntraFish it's not a good sign of things to come.
"Once it’s kicking around, quite often, when we see these early blooms, we tend to see more blooms later in the year too," she said.
