ralph wrote [snip] > I have seen plenty of fish on the river and in the harbor. Fish > jumping. Fish swimming near the surface. [snip] That's certainly encouraging. I should add to my earlier post (regarding medical waste and other pollution in LIS), that in one of the little coves I paddle to near Rye there are thousands and thousands of large oysters lining the floor of the cove. The cove is at an island with a few homes, and I asked a resident one day if he eats the oysters. He laughed and said that he wouldn't eat them raw, but he does throw a few on the grill and eat them He said that it was only in the last five years that they've been thriving again. Perhaps the waters are gradually getting better. But there's still so much horrific pollution (most of it illegal) going on in the area. . . I read recently that the president of the Sierra Club resigned in protest, saying (as best I recall) that the environmental movement was "fiddling while Rome burns." I hope he ends up being wrong, but I have my doubts. Mark *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Jun 29 2000 - 09:05:09 PDT
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