Va. sturgeon may be key to fish’s recovery
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The once-bountiful Atlantic sturgeon that sustained Native Americans and North America’s first European settlers now may number in the hundreds in the Chesapeake Bay, but no one really knows.
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OPINION: Can we have our fish and eat it too?
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As I stood at the fish counter, what I really wanted was a label that read: “YUMMY FISH, beloved by children, reasonably priced, poison-free and carefully harvested to preserve breeding populations, offer decent wages to fishing families and protect cute sea turtles (and other slimier but still important marine creatures).”
What I saw instead was fresh vs. frozen, wild vs. farmed, and country of origin. Unfortunately, with the exception of price, none of what I saw on the supermarket tags gave me the information I most wanted to know.
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EPA sued over lead in bullets, fishing tackle
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WASHINGTON — Three environmental groups sued the Environmental Protection Agency yesterday in an attempt to force it to prevent lead poisoning of wildlife from spent ammunition and lost fishing tackle.
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Controversial federal estimates of how much oil remained in Gulf in July were mostly accurate, study says
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A peer-reviewed report on the controversial federal estimates of how much oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster remained in the Gulf of Mexico in mid-July found that the estimates were largely accurate, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Administrator Jane Lubchenco said Tuesday.
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Review validates early report on where spilled BP oil went
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A peer review of a controversial August federal report on the whereabouts of oil from BP's Deepwater Horizon well upholds its conclusion that three-quarters of the oil had been burned, skimmed or was in the process of degrading, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Tuesday.
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