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Old March 5th, 2006, 07:08 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing,misc.rural,misc.consumers
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Default Fish Down Stream 3M Ssite On Mississippi River Unsafe

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On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:04:10 -0600, Barney Fife
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http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=650

Isn't this the case with most rivers in built up areas in the US?


Yeah. You are strongly advised not to eat any fish caught downstream of
Portland-Vancouver on the Columbia River. The salmon runs don't spend
enough time in the water there to become toxic, but all native fish are
poisonous. Animals that eat a lot of fish, like river otters, have an
extremely high rate of birth defects, organ deformities and cancers.

About 5 years ago, they discovered that the BPA had used the spillway of
Bonneville Dam as a dump site for junk electrical transformers
containing PCBs. There are thousands of them down there, completely
rusted out. Trying to get them out of the river would be worse than
leaving them. Someday they may rebuild the diversion channel they used
to build the dam, and shovel up the goop. Nobody is planning to do it
any time soon.

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