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All Things Considered, January 18, 2006 ·
Fish are sick and dying in many different rivers along the East Coast of the United States. Populations of some fish are down by 70 percent. Different diseases are afflicting the fish, and scientists don't know if there's any common source of their ailments. NPR's Elizabeth Shogren visits scientists who are looking at one affected species, the striped bass.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5162318
Myco makes the national news. Pollution, dead zones with a new twist - hermaphrodite rockfish, ( remember the he/she crab?) hormones and antibiotics in waste water.
Fish are sick and dying in many different rivers along the East Coast of the United States. Populations of some fish are down by 70 percent. Different diseases are afflicting the fish, and scientists don't know if there's any common source of their ailments. NPR's Elizabeth Shogren visits scientists who are looking at one affected species, the striped bass.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5162318
Myco makes the national news. Pollution, dead zones with a new twist - hermaphrodite rockfish, ( remember the he/she crab?) hormones and antibiotics in waste water.