{"id":79641,"date":"2021-07-15T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T16:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chinadialogue.net\/?post_type=news_digest&#038;p=79641"},"modified":"2022-05-03T16:40:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T16:40:53","slug":"huge-algal-bloom-off-qingdao","status":"publish","type":"news_digest","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/digest\/huge-algal-bloom-off-qingdao\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge algal bloom off Qingdao"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">The waters off Qingdao, a major port city on the Yellow Sea, have been blanketed by green algae since late June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The city has dispatched thousands of boats to scoop up the plants, which cover 1,746 square kilometres, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jiemian.com\/article\/6341718.html\">Jiemian<\/a>. So far, 310,000 tons have been collected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the biggest Qingdao bloom so far. The algae was a particular embarrassment in 2008, when the city hosted the Olympic sailing. In 2017, research identified purple laver farming in neighbouring Jiangsu province as the root cause. When farmers harvest the edible seaweed, they inadvertently release the algae, the research found. The green algae then starts its journey north until it eventually reaches Qingdao hundreds of kilometres away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That conclusion was heavily disputed by experts in Jiangsu, who say the province has prohibited farmers from dumping algae into the ocean since 2014. This year, the scale of purple laver farming in northern Jiangsu fell 38% compared to last year, they said. \u201cJiangsu\u2019s control effort is considered the strongest in 2021, and yet Qingdao\u2019s algal bloom turned out to be the worst in years, indicating a weak link between the two,\u201d said Dai Weiping, secretary general of Jiangsu province edible seaweed association. He said eutrophication and climate change were more important factors.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the debate continues, the short-term solution appears to be better forecasts and preemptive clean-up. \u201cWe should make preparations for algal blooms like we do for typhoons,\u201d expert Sun Song told Jiemian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The waters off Qingdao, a major port city on the Yellow Sea, have been blanketed by green algae since late June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":75286,"template":"","categories":[764],"tags":[],"country":[],"digest-collection":[],"class_list":["post-79641","news_digest","type-news_digest","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v26.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Huge algal bloom off Qingdao | Dialogue Earth<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The 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