The reporter learned from the Municipal Bureau of Ocean and Fishery that our city has started the early warning and monitoring work of red tide in 2016 to fully grasp the floating organism variety, quantity and situation of ecological environment of red tide caused by coastal waters, find out the potential risks of red tide to the marine environment and provide decision-making basis for red tide disaster prevention and mitigation.
It is reported that Fuzhou coastal waters will enter a period of high red tide. The red tide early warning and monitoring work mainly includes the red tide monitoring area of Minjiang estuary and the encrypted monitoring of the high red tide area. The monitoring of the red tide monitoring area at the mouth of Minjiang River started from April to October, and the monitoring frequency was once every half a month; The encrypted monitoring area at the high incidence area of red tide included the red tide monitoring area at the mouth of Minjiang River and the key breeding area in Fuzhou city, the monitoring period is from April to June, and the monitoring frequency is twice a week. (Reporter Huang Ling)