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U.S. ban urged for alien alga

A petition by 107 scientists asks the Interior Department to ban the importation and possession of an environmentally dangerous seaweed currently in the aquarium trade.

References:

1998. Petition to Secretary Babbitt to ban Caulerpa taxifolia from U.S. waters. Available at http://www.mcbi.org/caulerpa/babbitt.html.

Cohen, A.N. 1998. Nonindigenous organisms in the aquarium industry that have been released into U.S. waters. Available at http://www.mcbi.org/caulerpa/invaders.html.

Further Readings:

Raloff, J. 1998. Rogue algae. Science News 154(July 4):8.

______. 1998. European crab leaps to Pacific prominence. Science News 153(June 13):373.

Sources:

Andrew N. Cohen
San Francisco Estuary Institute
180 Richmond Field Station
1325 South 46th Street
Richmond, CA 94804

Robert Peoples
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Office of Scientific Authority
4401 N. Fairfax
Room 750
Arlington, VA 22203

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 21, November 21, 1998, p. 332. Copyright Ó 1998 by Science Service.

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