[APWG] NEWS: An Unsightly Algae Extends Its Grip to a Crucial New York Stream

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/16/science/16invasive.html?ref=science

An Unsightly Algae Extends Its Grip to a Crucial New York Stream
By ANTHONY DePALMA
Published: June 15, 2009

SHANDAKEN, N.Y. -- The Esopus Creek, a legendary Catskill Mountain fly
fishing stream that is an integral part of New York City.s vast upstate
drinking water system, is one of the latest bodies of water to be infected
with Didymosphenia geminata, a fast-spreading single-cell algae that is
better known to fishermen and biologists around the world as rock snot.

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