HABs events have been increasingly reported in the
country over the last decade. This may be the cause of
increasing utilization of coastal inhabitants, maricultures
and other human coastal activities that led to eutrophication
of the coastal waters. industrialization, urbanization and
commercial agricultural plantation also led to nutrient runoff and nutrient enrichment in the freshwater and marine
coastal systems that subsequently promote algal-bloom.
HABS evenT in THe deCAd