CHAPTER 9. PART 2 



coast the bottom received large quantities of phytopiank- 

 ton from the bloom in Lower New York Bay. The Olis- 

 thodisciis bloom may not have added measurably to the 

 1976 oxygen depletion, because it was small compared to 

 the C. tripos bloom. Perhaps a more important implication 

 is that material from chronic seasonal blooms of phyto- 

 flagellates would contribute to annual bottom water oxy- 

 gen sag in at least the coastal area near the bay. Segar and 

 Berberian (1976) determined that oxidation of phyto- 

 plankton material below the thermocline was a major 

 cause of the low oxygen values they observed in the bot- 

 tom waters of the Bight Apex. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



Frank Steimle coordinated the surveys that provided 

 most of the water samples which were examined. The 



samples were collected primarily by Robert Reid, David 

 Radosh, John Ziskowski, and Charles Byrne. 



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