Suspect isolated in great fish killing
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
After more than seven years of study, scientists have isolated a toxin that may have killed millions of fish along the East Coast in the 1990s.
The fish were killed by parasitic algae called Pfiesteria, but researchers had been unable to determine how the organism did it. Chemist Peter Moeller of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Wednesday in the journal Environmental Science and Technology that all the experiments had to be performed under red lights because white light destroyed the toxin.
