ABSTRACT
The phenomena loosely christened “water blooms” have always attracted the attention of the practitioners of algal mass culture. The green, blue-green, reddish, and orange waters described from virtually any conceivable aquatic biotope, freshwater, marine, natural, or man-made, seemed to be the philosopher’s stone of applied algology. If only deciphered, the massive concentrations of microscopic algae occurring during blooms would be obtained by emulating the conditions which had led to the natural algal bloom, thereby creating a continuous algal crop to be harvested by man at will.
