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Good Chesapeake Bay news...
Little John wrote:
On Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:02:31 -0400, NotNow wrote: Little John wrote: On Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:05:48 -0400, wrote: On Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:32:59 -0400, Little John wrote: On Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:39:57 -0400, Wizard of Woodstock wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/sc...yster.html?hpw That *is* some good news. One little light in a sea of gloom. Now if they'd stop the menhaden fishing, the sewage dumping up north, and kill the mute swans, they'd be on the right path. How is the "oil" and fecal coliform problem going? I know when I was there people said there was a layer of sludge on the bottom of the bay from all the people who flush oil down the toilet and from the street runoff of several major cities that use the bay for a sewer. Coilforms are basically just the chicken farms but some also comes from bad sewer plants and septic tanks. The show PBS ran on the problems in the bay showed the chicken farmers are still dumping raw chicken **** in the creeks that feed the bay. It is hard to argue with aerial photos of it happening. I still would not eat an oyster from that bay, and certainly not without cooking it. This is how bad things were six years ago. They've gotten worse. http://www.cbf.org/Document.Doc?id=321 -- John H That's odd. If people listened to Harry, they'd think the bay was the best place in the world to boat, fish, and live..... It's still got some nice boating and fishing, but the fishing isn't as good as it was some years back. The crab, oyster, and fish population is greatly reduced, but the size of the 'dead zone' hasn't. I don't recall Harry saying much about how nice the Chesapeake Bay is. Usually he's just putting down someone else's location, like Lake Lanier or Puget Sound, neither of which he's boated in. -- John H Yeah, there must be some decent areas to fish in there. I've got friends who grew up on or around the bay. They show me pictures of bushel baskets full of huge blue crab, etc. and say it certainly isn't like that now. |
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