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Originally Posted by snake slinger
maybe iam wrong if so please correct me but i dont see how the hudson and chesappeake are more toxic today than they were 30 years ago when mills were dumping toxins in the water daily.
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GE Plastics may not be dumping PCBs any more and many of the more visible manufacturing offenders have been shut down, but runoff of overused petroleum-based fertilizers remains a huge and growing problem. (If 100 gallons per acre is recommended 200 must be better, right?) Particularly in the Chesapeake. PCBs don't kill bass and bait (though they kill those of us who eat the bass) fertilizers do.
Industrial agriculture is a much more widespread and less visible problem than the manufacturers whose smokestacks and outflows make a killer photo op to rally public opposition. Corporate agriculture is heavily subsidized by us, is allowed to pretty much write public policy, and operates largely below the radar.
Sorry if I'm getting off-topic and political, but it's a huge threat to the fishery.
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