Highlights of the XVI International Conference on Harmful Algae, Beatriz Reguera, Donald Anderson, Michelle Burford, Keith Davidson, Rosa Figueroa, Gustaaf Hallegraeff, Phil Hess, Kevin Sellner, Patricia Tester, Adriana Zingone & Lincoln MacKenzie ................................................................................................ 1 Preparations for the 17th International Conference on Harmful Algae (ICHA) have started .................................... 8 IFREMER will host the 18th International Conference on Harmful Algae (ICHA) in Nantes, France......................... 8 Workshop on quantitative PCR techniques for harmful algae, Kirsty Smith..... 9 Cawthron visitors post ICHA Meeting, Tim Harwood & Lesley Rhodes.............. 9 Eutrophication and Harmful Macroalgal Blooms in Florida’s Indian River Lagoon, Brian E Lapointe & Laura W Herren .................................................. 10 Conspicuous blooms of Chaetomorpha linum in the International Biosphere Reserve Seaflower, SW Caribbean, Brigitte Gavio & J. Ernesto Mancera-Pineda................................. 12 Unusual biomass of pelagic Sargassum reached the Southwestern Caribbean, Brigitte Gavio, M. Natalia Rincón-Díaz & Adriana Santos-Martínez ............................ 13 First record of the harmful dinoflagellate Cochlodinium polykrikoides in Lampung Bay, Indonesia, Hikmah Thoha, Arief Rachman, Tumpak Sidabutar, Nurul Fitriya, Mariana D. Bayu, Muawanah, Mitsunori Iwataki, Kazuya Takahashi & Estelle Masseret ................................................................................................ 14 Observations of Heterosigma akashiwo bloom and associated wild salmon lethargic behavior in Cowichan Bay, Canada, 2014, Svetlana Esenkulova, Oline Luinenburg, Chrys Neville & Marc Trudel ............................... 16 Book review: Marine benthic dinoflagellates – unveiling their worldwide biodiversity (Mona Hoppenrath, Shauna Murray,Nicolas Chomérat & Takeo Horiguchi), Santiago Fraga........................................................................ 18 First report of a mass-poisoning outbreak following the consumption of Tectus niloticus (Gastropod) in French Polynesia: a novel pathway of Ciguatera Shellfish Poisoning?, Clémence M Gatti, H Taiana Darius & Mireille Chinain & Davide Lonati ............................................................................. 19 First report of Gambierdiscus in Moroccan Atlantic waters, Btissam Ennaffah & Karima Chaira ............................. 20 Announcement: PACE-Net+ Think Tank: Coastal ecosystem disturbances, fish and shellfish poisoning and their socio-economic implications .......... 21 ISSHA’s Corner, Vera Trainer .................................................................. 22 First announcement: Scientific Symposium on Harmful Algal Blooms and Climate Change Gothenburg, Sweden, 19-22 May 2015........................... 26 The Impact of Global Change on Toxic Phytoplankton............................ 27 The ICES-IOC Working Group on Harmful Algal Bloom Dynamics (WGHABD).......................................... 27 Twelfth Session of the IOC Intergovernmental Panel on Harmful Algal Blooms (IPHAB-XII), UNESCO, Paris, 28-30 April 2015 ...................... 27 IOC Training Course and Identification Qualification in Harmful Marine Microalgae 2015 (with optional workshops on enumeration and/or culture techniques) ........................................................................................... 27 Eighth Symposium on Harmful Algae in the U.S. ................................... 27 Ciguatera in the South Pacific ................................................................ 28