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The results of a 4-year study in a hypereutrophic bay, Kaupunginselkä Bay at Porvoo on the south coast of Finland, indicated a significant correlation between muddy odour in bream (Abramis brama) and the amount of the blue-green alga Oscillatoria agardhii in the phytoplankton. This algal strain has previously been shown to produce the muddy-smelling compound geosmin. The numbers of muddy-smelling actinomycetes in the water and sediments of the study area were not clearly related to muddy odour in fish, nor to phytoplankton biomass. In the hypereutrophic L. Tuusulanjärvi, muddy odour in bream and pikeperch (Stizostedion lucioperca) was also related to the amounts of blue-green algae in the phytoplankton.
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Persson, PE. Muddy odour: a problem associated with extreme eutrophication. Hydrobiologia 86, 161–164 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00005805
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