From NPR:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6082152
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If that is how the fish are in the Potomac, I woudnt want to go fishing with any of the "lady" anglers that fish there.
The damage that man is inflicting on planet Earth is growing progressively more serious.
The road ahead doesn't look too pretty.
Roger
Sad. Potentially scary.
But, not a new topic. This has been known in European waters for decades. It was only a matter of time before it made the news here.
I'm always re-struck by Apollo 8 astronaut Jim Lovell's comments when he looked back at Earth, for the first time in history, a little blue ball hanging there, "That's all we have. ... How fragile it appeared."
There are a lot of us now. We care for what we collectively value. And what do we value, really?
Ahhhh... Home sweet home. Yea, that's the same potomac I took my kids swimming in almost weekly the last half of the summer..
It is scary and it is an enormous job to determine the effects of the multitude of various chemicals used by humans that make it into our waters, land, and air. We must balance the benefits of the chemicals with the deleterious effects they have. That balance is difficult to achieve due to lack of knowledge and/or lack of concern.
knowledge is the catalyst for prevention
I can see it now, "Prozac scented worms." :-?
Hermaphrodite bass, sounds like a show for Phil Donahue.
Now I know the reasoning behind some of the post from several members(You know who you are) here. If you are having thoughts of going both ways just own up to it. It's evident in some of your post. Guess now we will have to cut you some slack, as the problem is not all of your own doing.
The EPA and other groups have long bent to political pressure to look the other way when it comes to our water. I've said it before, if you think the price of oil is expensive just wait, the price of water will make it look like a joke down the road.
BET YOU A DOLLAR, that is why my ole' lady is beating up on me all the time, she has been getting chemicals out of the water handling those fish, and now she has gonads up in there somewhere...