The authorities has done every thing to check the growing menace of algae as they have become increasingly common because of pollution and changing environmental conditions. Researches are on to fight this menace and there are many insights available to control the blooms of algae. Milena Bruno and colleagues in the Department of Environment and Primary Prevention, at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, in Rome, Italy, have said that bodies of water across the globe have undergone increasing eutrophication over the last four decades.
According to them the changing nutrient and pollution levels due to the release of human waste, agricultural run-off, fish farming, and changing global climatic conditions has led to a rise in algal blooms. The widespread of algal also become evident due to inadvertent transportation of dormant algal cysts in ship ballasts. Bruno informed that the algal blooms, and harmful algal blooms in particular, have multiplied enormously throughout the world over the last 40 years.
As per the team suggestion there are several new control strategies, including a sterilization programme for ensuring shipping ballast water does not act as a transportation system for algae. The use of clay particles to kill the algal cells can also be benefiting. According to the researchers remote sensing and satellite imaging technology could be used to monitor algal growth around aquaculture areas where corralled fish and shellfish are grown, particularly in the Far East.
They said that there are other strategies that should be operated alongside a medical information network that can track health problems, such as dermatitis in swimmers and food poisoning, related to algal blooms. The blooms of algal are certainly a menace and that should be fight as early as possible.
