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[chris gadsden]

From Dave and worth taking the time to read.
http://www.bucksuzuki.org/images/uploads/docs/Hidden_Killer.pdf

[Riverman]

 Thanks for sharing this Chris.Apparently everything is not as rosy as the spin doctors would have us believe.

[Tangles]

Good read, thank you Chris, I've wondered about those issues before and it was intersting to find out information on this subject.

[VAGAbond]

About 20 years ago the dominant species of winter feed in Georgia Strait changed and the coho abandoned the Strait as a preferred feeding ground to the considerable detriment of the sport fishing.  About that time many communities around the Strait completed pipes to dump treated sewage into deep water: Vancouver Iona, Comox, Campbell River etc.  These events may not be connected but I wonder.  Injecting huge quantities of treated effluent laced with heavy metals, antibiotics etc etc. just doesn't seem like a good idea.

[Ambassador]

Our lovely Government is more concerned with spending billions on spy palaces than keeping our water (and air) clean. Makes me think the salmon that do get past this crap and return are that much more special. These outflows need to be updated immediately.
Vancouver election tomorrow...

[RalphH]

From Dave and worth taking the time to read.
http://www.bucksuzuki.org/images/uploads/docs/Hidden_Killer.pdf

this is from the T Buck Suzuki Foundation not David: http://www.bucksuzuki.org/about-us/t-buck-suzuki/

[chris gadsden]

this is from the T Buck Suzuki Foundation not David: http://www.bucksuzuki.org/about-us/t-buck-suzuki/

Just mentiuoned that Dave gave me the link.

[RalphH]

you know Dave Suzuki? I am confused!

[Dave]

LOL ... getting better all the time

[ThatDeafGuy]

Not only is it a concern for marine life, but human life as well.  Would you let your children swim in these waters?  How many times were beaches in Vancouver and White Rock closed in the past 10 years during the summers with unsafe E.Coli levels?

[Fisherbob]

http://www.alaskasalmonranching.com/city-slickers-slick-killing-salmon/

[RalphH]

the article doesn't seem to mention this:

http://www.livescience.com/14691-surprising-birth-control-pill-facts.html

other studies suggest that trace levels of progesterone, the synthetic hormone that is the active ingredient in almost all birth control pills may be responsible for the falling levels of male fertility (drop in sperm count) in parts of the Western World.

[norton]

There's a lot of little towns up and down the fraser that dump basically raw sewage into the fraser. Hope for instance has just primary treatment. They just remove the solids and dump the rest into the Fraser, right where silver river joins the Fraser.