rb608 wrote:
Larry L wrote:
( I used to wade around with a net and
catch crabs in the Chesapeake Bay, near Easton, too, they were thick ... is
that still possible, right coasters ? )

Like a lot of places, possible? Yes. As easy as it used to be? No.
The Bay (that's the Chesapeake Bay around here) is alive, but of very
questionable health. I'm not able to quote statistics, but based on my
lifetime here, it's as bad as it's ever been overall. Some places show
improvement, but I'm not enthusiastic about it ever improving
significantly from here. Among overfishing, runoff, development, and
all of the other bad actors, there's just too much pressure toward
degradation. Hell, my favorite place on the Bay, the quiet little
seafood town of Crisfield, now sports (I **** you not) several
multi-story condominium complexes right on the shoreline, with more in
the works. Word is, the other towns like Deale Island, etc. are
going through the same upscaling. It's unbelieveable.

That said, it is still possible to find a salt marsh and paddle around;
but the crabs are far less plentiful these days.

Pretty much the same story here in the upper Great Lakes region. The
once bountiful yellow perch, smelt, lake trout and whitefish are all
but gone.

Pretty much the same story around the world.

The GOOD news is that there are no environmental problems......it's all
just scare tactics from a bunch of hysterical reactionaries whose only
goal in life is to impede progress by whatever means, fair or foul,
they can find.

Wolfgang
and good news is better than bad news, right?