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rrN PM,'". CpLIF. i:,.M B. tt3 FEB 4 W/S ... Clam fishing i}iay return jb Bay Area ^-BERKELEY (UPI) _ 9*1" fishing, which thrived jm ego in Sen Fronds<* -"By. m*y won return as t result of cleaner water, a i JWJ? the University of : OIMornlt Lawrence Labo. rlfoty indicated today. ,-The study said the bay "**y be reedy for sport ^ammin* in the near future ana possiuy for commercial $r{,'rf1>Wn8 with a harvest M3 million pounds a year. ,i',n "scent years the wa. | nuailly of the bay has t*en substantially 1mSCi 'fln*' the effort of the Regional Water Quailty Oontrol Board." the re port said. nTbe shellfish industry jwurished from the 1890s through the first decade of this century in the bay, but disappeared in the 1930s as the result of heavy contami"tion of the clam beds by industrial and domestic wvtte. ~1he study found that conSTi'.ttonB of mercury. Kffend polychlorinated jpwityls found in shellfish r, "ty is below the gjerance levels for these pollutants. However, It said there ere traces of lead, codndum and other metals g.lh* g*TM *l is not own how dangerous they I Tha report stressed the sod (or further study "be. moony area of the bey cm Oh^esST1 ^ HONS 033028