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By Mary Beth Martin
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The “cell from hell” and “killer-dinoflagette,"otherwise known as Pfiesteria piscicida, which caused fish-kills and health alarms in Maryland in August, was the topic of a talk and slide show given on Friday, Oct. 24, at the Rappahannock Library by Richard Lacoutrue, a phytoplankton research ecologist from the Academy of Natural Sciences in St. Leonard’s, Md.
According to Hunt Harris of the Ragged Mountain Resource Center, who organized the program, Lacouture is considered an expert on Pfiesteria and served on Marland Governor Parris Glendening’s fish health advisory committee.
Misinformation about the organism is rampant, Lacouture said, because it has a complicated life cycle and because so much is still not understood about it. About 35 people braved the rain to attend the talk. Earlier in the day Lacouture spoke to 200 sixth and seventh graders at the Rappahannock County Elementary School about the same topic.
Discovery
The organism was first discovered in North Carolina, Lacouture said, in a serendipitious series of events at North
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