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State officials are proposing to eliminate Maine’s red tide monitoring program in order to comply with required budget cuts, a move shellfish diggers fear could drive them out of business. Commissioner George LaPointe of the Department of Marine Resources says Gov. John Baldacci’s order to reduce its budget by 10%, or $1 million, requires either [...]
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The research into the little known (until reported here), area of Plankton Parasites (or parasitoids ), is paying off . . . "We hypothesize that when a bloom occurs, these parasitoids are not able to infect the invasive species," Guillou said.
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25 November 2008
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