Le maximum saisonnier de Dynophysis cf acuminata à Antifer (Normandie, France)

Since 1987 Antifer oil tanker terminal (Normandy, France) was weIl known, as a preferential area for summer highest blooms of Dinophysis cf acuminata, a toxic dinoflagellate. Three oceanographic cruises were made in August 1989, before, in the course of and after the seasonal max. of this species. Results obtained from these cruises (hydrological parameters and phytoplankton) as weIl as from a daily survey at a reference station in Antifer harbour, corrobora te the prevailing role of coastal up flowing of Seine estuarine waters, pushed to the coast by a dominant S - SW wind, on intensity and duration of Dinophysis bloom. Such observations are in agreement with those of Summer 1987 at reference station.