How is fertilizer runoff related to algal blooms?

To carry out life functions and to build tissues, How is fertilizer runoff related to algal blooms? It creates more nutrients for Algal. Fertilizer runoff supplies large amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus to Aquatic Ecosystems.

Fertilizer runoff feeds growth of harmful algal blooms. In fact, the size of each summer's bloom in Lake Erie is directly related to the amount of dissolved phosphorus that flows into the lake from the rivers and streams that feed it.