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Examines the long-term solutions to accelerated eutrophication on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and the view that they must provide mechanisms for redistributing nutrients flowing into concentrated animal-producing regions. Initial strategy; Questions which have been raised by Pfiesteria outbreaks; Phosphorus transport in agricultural drainage and on the Eastern Shore.

Examines the influence of the investigations of a Pfiesteria piscicida outbreak in the Chesapeake Bay on the national debate on pollution controls and the link between environmental and human health. Plans for a study of the Pocomoke River to sample fish and record any externally visible anomalies; Impacts on human health which were documented; Theory on why the outbreaks may have occurred; How the outbreak spread to two other rivers.

Examines the incidence of toxic Pfiesteria, a dinoflagellate, in the estuaries of North Carolina, in light of outbreaks in the Chesapeake Bay. Detection of the organism at estuarine fish kills; Basic biology, ecology, and toxicity of Pfiesteria as of 1997; Benign and toxic strains; Impacts on fish; Research and socioeconomic concerns in North Carolina.