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Just a head's up to Puget Sound Brats regarding a television show tomorrow night.

KCTS Channel Nine (PBS) will be airing a two hour Frontline at 9 p.m. Tuesday, 4/21, at a TV near you. Reporter/author Hedrick Smith will examine this area's ecosystem, and why it's so hard to keep our waters clean. Chesapeake Bay water quality also will be investigated. Don't miss it.
 
Catman,

I saw the show last nite. It aired on PBS Channel 8 here in Duluth.

IT WAS AN EYE OPENER FOR SURE.

I've known about a dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico off the Mississippi River mouth for a few years now. It is fairly small and is avoided. If If I got it right, they said over 40% of Chesapeake Bay is now dead. Most of the fisheries are gone an no oystering is done there anymore. Just the oysters alone is a shocker, the bay has provided us most of the non Gulf coast oysters since the white man came here. Now they are gone????

I had not heard about the Puget sound dead zone either. Also, PCB's are being found at super high levels in orcas now as well. I thought the PCB thing had improved some years ago.

Un F ing real, How come the whole country has been kept in the dark about all this?

I guess it's time for us to get off our asses and shake up the Gubmint til we get some meaningful action. If we don't, it looks as though our marine resources will all go down the tubes.

Happy Earth Day all,

Capt Dan
 
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