The Department of the Environment now says tens of thousands of dead fish have washed ashore in Anne Arundel County.
It
started Monday. At least 6,000 dead fish were found at Marley Creek.
More dead fish were found at the City Dock and at the neck of Marley
Creek above Furnace Creek.
Officials say they found between 6
and 12 different species of fish in the fish kills. The fish that were
found at the City Dock were contained to the area and are believed to
have been pushed in from the Severn River.
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Now how about, instead of spending a ton of money having studies done just to prove something or someone is less than 10% of 'the problem', why not just admit that no matter how minicule, you are part of the problem and start doing something about it?
ReplyDeleteIt's time everyone involved stop trying to shift the blame and do something.
Unfortunately, the Governor has done something, but it was absolutely the wrong thing.
ReplyDeleteUnder Maryland Smart Growth initiatives and the septic bans, the Governor is concentrating population growth and nitrogen discharge into the most polluted parts of the Bay; right were these fish died.
You can expect to see more, under the Governor's "Green Growth Initiatives"!
This is a load the Severn river is a long way from Marley creek which is off the Patapsco and not connected to the Sebern River at any point. This looks like a typical spring LY kill similar to those that have been occuring forever. I have slides with pictures of kills in the specific area going bact to the 60s. Looks like another reason tocast blame on humans.
ReplyDeleteProblem is on issues like this, the scientists say one thing to explain than the media pick up on a single tag line within the explanation, hype it up, then the public gets riled up only knowing a small piece of the true story.
ReplyDelete12:35, the Bay was bad in the 60's and up through the 80's. I grew up in AA county on the Bay. We used to swim (60's & 70's) and then have to take a rag with gasoline on it to get the tar like substance off our bodies. Back then no one cared and we still swam in it. It came to a point in the 80's where my family had to join a pool so my nieces and nephews could swim even though the Bay was right outside their door.
ReplyDeleteSometime during the 90's it became clean enough to swim in again.