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What is golden alga and how does it kill fish?

April 26, 2017alga fish Golden kill

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What is golden alga and how does it kill fish?

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The golden alga, Prymnesium parvum, is a tiny, one-celled aquatic organism about the size of a human blood cell. The alga is motile with two “tails” called flagella that help it to move through the water in lakes and ponds. A single drop of lake water may contain well over 2,000 cells of golden alga. Biologists suspect that golden alga is relatively new to Arizona and they consider it a nuisance invasive species.