HABS evenT in THe deCAde
For the past decade, several major HABs events have
been reported in the country (Figure 1 and Table 1). in
2001, an incident of shellfish intoxication was reported
following a massive bloom of a marine dinoflagellate in
a semi-enclosed lagoon of Tumpat, the north-eastern of
Peninsular Malaysia (Figure 1(a)). The event was widely