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[Trample the Elderly]

Originally Posted by over the mountain

FD i will defer to you on anything and everything fishing and water related but this post is what i was getting at.

i know around bmore we get algea blooms from the unnaturally high levels of nitrogen (?) that get dumped into the water from industrial plants. book july-august for another fish kill bloom in the inner harbor.

i know the strippers are harder and harder to find up where i am, with their seasonal runs now being effected by changing water tempetures.

i know oysters used to be plentiful in the bay but now they only survive on federally funded sanctuaries.

MD is also looking to use fed money to create soft shell crab sanctuaries.

it just seems MD has been a bunch of talk and no action until we got this influx of fed money the past year or so.

i think the state does a poor job now b/c states and cities (like maryland and baltimore) have very tight budgets. if baltimore is cutting police and firefighters, you best believe money for environmental efforts isnt going to be handed out.

states have too much on their plate and all they do is juggle a budget. i would like the fed gov't to step in and help the states with finances to achieve goals like cleaning up the bay.

But they did such a good job protecting us from Allied Chemical and Dupont. Sure, let the Fed and State work out a good fat contract with some environmental group or chemical manufacturer. That's all that's important at the end of the day, the bottom line. Just ask Al Gore. He has your best interest at heart, second only to the planet's.

FD Kepone in the Bay might not be an issue. On the James it still is. It's in the river bottom. People still get sick. Anyone who eats fish out of the James is asking to be hospitalized. That's the government at work.