The Water
Quality Information Center at the National Agricultural
Library
Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Department of
Agriculture
Pfiesteria piscicida
- About
Pfiesteria piscicida, from Maryland Sea Grant and the
Aquatic Pathobiology Center, University of Maryland School of
Medicine, provides extensive information about Pfiesteria as
part of their Fish Health in the
Chesapeake Bay Web site.
- The Aquatic Botany
Laboratory at North Carolina State University has comprehensive
information on Pfiesteria.
- The Bay Journal (October 1997
issue), contains several articles about Pfiesteria,
including a page of Pfiesteria
facts.
- The Cell
from Hell, from Micscape Magazine (in the UK), provides some
thoughts on Pfiesteria.
- The Chesapeake Bay Program has information about Pfiesteria.
- A Congressional Research Service report, Pfiesteria
and Related Harmful Blooms: Natural Resource and Human Health
Concerns is available. The report examines the science of
Pfiesteria and the policy implications of Federal, state,
and local responses.
- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of
Water page on Pfiesteria includes EPA
Pfiesteria-related research and news, links to activities at
the state level, and related information.
- Pfiesteria
piscicida / Pfiesteria shumwayae, from the Maryland
Department of Natural Resources covers these
Pfiesteria-related topics: who's involved, areas affected,
chronology, who to contact; provides press releases, technical
information and fact sheets. Also provides access to various
reports, including the
Report of the Governor's Blue Ribbon Citizens Pfiesteria Action
Commmission (the Hughes Report).
- Fish
Health, Fungal Infections, and Pfiesteria: The Role of the U.S.
Geological Survey (USGS) provides information on USGS
investigations of Pfiesteria in the Chesapeake Bay region.
Also see a related
press release (9/26/97).
- Microscopic
Murderer: Pollution May be Motivating Pfiesteria to Kill
Fish by the Thousands is a new environmental fact sheet
produced by the Academy of Natural Sciences (August 1998).
- No Hysteria Over
Pfiesteria is information from Pamlico County, North
Carolina.
- The North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural
Resources offers a question and answer
fact sheet on Pfiesteria. There's also a glossary of
terms related to the topic.
- Pfiesteria
and Agriculture, from the University of Maryland College of
Agriculture and Natural Resources, provides information on the
topic, including a white paper (revised November 1997) (HTML version)
(PDF
version) developed by the college.
- A Pfiesteria
piscicida Bibliography of the scientific literature was
produced by the Water Quality Information Center at the National
Agricultural Library. Also, many Pfiesteria piscicida
articles are included in a list of publications
provided by the North Carolina State University Center for Applied
Aquatic Ecology.
- Surveillance
for Possible Estuary-Associated Syndrome---Six States,
1998--1999 is an article in Morbidity and Mortality
Weekly (May 05, 2000 / 49(17);372-3) from the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
- Pfiesteria
reasearch information is provided by the Virginia Institute of
Marine Science. The Virginia Marine Resources Commission also
offers links to Pfiesteria
Information.
Return to the Water
Quality Information Center at the National Agricultural
Library.
Last update: December 29, 2004
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