On October 20th, 2020, Chilean and Japanese researchers associated with the MACH project published a research article entitled “Protocols for Monitoring Harmful Algal Blooms for Sustainable Aquaculture and Coastal Fisheries in Chile” in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
This article represents the project’s first milestone: the standardization of Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) monitoring methodologies from several perspectives, including physical, chemical, microbiological, and molecular biological water sample analyses.
All the project members diligently contributed to establishing the protocols and performing field and laboratory studies with compliance with the protocol to deliver the results. The article focuses on Chilean HAB monitoring; however, this step-wise standardized protocol is beneficial also for researchers in the other regions of the world who are intensively studying HABs.
For further detail, the article has been published as “Open-Access,” and it is available at https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17207642.
