All About the Plankton Bloom Pt. I

As you know, Marine Plasma is harvested from plankton blooms in the ocean. What you may not know is that the plankton bloom is made up of several different marine organisms that form their own miniature environmental cycle.

There are Phytoplankton, Zooplankton, and Bacterioplankton, each variety living at a different level of the plankton bloom and each carrying out a different responsibility. Phytoplankton live in the surface waters of the ocean. They are mostly algae and carry on through photosynthesis. The Zooplankton are small marine creatures such as tiny crustaceans that feed on other plankton within the plankton bloom. They live further down in the plankton bloom. Bacterioplankton are smaller organisms like archaea and they are responsible for remineralizing organic material within the bloom. These little guys are the recyclers of the plankton bloom and help to return some of the essential nutrients to the marine plasma that can be taken up by other phytoplankton.