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Toxin's on the rise in Chinook in the South Sound

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Dmanmastertracker:
 Article in today's Seattle Times had a new scientist study released on elevated level's of organic contaminant's in Chinook ranging from the Duwamish, down to Olympia area. The study was aimed at affect's to Orca's, but it can't be good for us either :(

 Sources of organic pollutant's are sewage, fertilizer's and fire retardant's, to name a few.

sisu:
You know it's funny that people blame the loggers, Indians, and the farmers of western Washington for the decline. Go for a ride around the "Greater Olympia-Bellingham" metropolitan area during the spring-fall months and take a look at people  fertilizing, fungiciding, weed killing, pesticiding etc. and you'll see the real decline of the fishing both commercial and sport. But NO, Oh no, no one wants to look in the mirror and see the real culprit. It's everyday common Joe Doe and Mary Doe home owner that wants pretty flowers, green lawn, and super garden with chemicals. Chemicals are good for you just read Timothy Leary's writings.
And people can argue till they are blue in the face about this because they know this is correct.

Dmanmastertracker:

--- Quote from: sisu on January 16, 2009, 11:57:08 AM ---You know it's funny that people blame the loggers, Indians, and the farmers of western Washington for the decline. Go for a ride around the "Greater Olympia-Bellingham" metropolitan area during the spring-fall months and take a look at people  fertilizing, fungiciding, weed killing, pesticiding etc. and you'll see the real decline of the fishing both commercial and sport. But NO, Oh no, no one wants to look in the mirror and see the real culprit. It's everyday common Joe Doe and Mary Doe home owner that wants pretty flowers, green lawn, and super garden with chemicals. Chemicals are good for you just read Timothy Leary's writings.
And people can argue till they are blue in the face about this because they know this is correct.

--- End quote ---

 So very true, I go to several annual WSDA and DOE seminars for my job and a couple years back Bush "relaxed" all the homeowner and commercial use restriction's for chemicals, regarding stream barriers and in some cases even began to allow chemicals proven to harm fish to be used directly in water applications. These non-point source pollutant's are a big problem, as well as failed homeowner septic systems. Another big problem is fecal coliform from the overabundance of waterfowl in urban waters. I can tell you fecal coliform levels are over the required limits on most river system's in the Sound, at some point. They need to have open season on waterfowl in some of these areas.

singleshot12:
Good point sisu

It's very sad how man has carelessly poisoned the environment in just the last 50 or so years.

I hope that the effects are not irreversible and people wake up soon,
 and learn to use healthier alternatives to chemicals.

rasbo:
thats why I have moles,I wont use poison.guess Ill stick with the traps.A part time creek splits my property so I worry about down stream.I think of all the septic systems theve got to leech into the system.I have my house sprayed 3 times a year,its supposed to be green, crysanthimum oil?probley butchered the spelling.I love the hunting and fishing but I try to stay green as possible.

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