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Lake Michigan fish die
after industrial pollution
CHICAGO (AP> -- A dun- enable u* to ratoe anything limiting its sales to the limit,
garaue pollutant it killing a bettor than lakea hill of manufacturers of electrical Reed said that in addition
*17 million effort to reetock euuuchlaed fiih," Reed told a transformers and to the Great Lakes. PCB
the Groat Lakea, rendering conference. "With the capacitors.
residues have been found is
flah unsafe to eat and unable present preponderance of /When ingested by the body all of the fish flwji from 100
to reprodueo, a government PCBs, the lifespan' of die in sufficient quantities, PCBs stations in major river
specialist said Friday.
Great Lakea fishery will be have been blamed for systems across the natleu.
Samptoe of game fish Show limited to a single numerous problems from "They an literally avary-
the restocking program Is generation.''
acne to miscarriage.
where," he said.
being wrecked because of PCB la short for poty-
"Under present couditioas,
potentially harmful levels of chlorinated biphenyl, a The federal Food and Drug PCBs may vary well pul the
the ehsmical PCB, said hydrocarbon that had. a Administration bans the mg out from beneath us by
Nathaniel P. Read. aasisUnt number of Industrial ap- commercial sale of any fish destroying marginal spadaa
socretary of the Interior. plicationa until the early with a PCB content of S parts In spite of our bast afTorts for
"Nothing short of Im- 19T0a when Monsanto Corp., per million and Canada preservation," Reed told a
modlata drastic action will the sole U-S^Rdueeriliegim earlier this week set a 3ppm threeday scientific and
technical conference
sponsored by the Envtron-
. mental Protection Agency.
This year, federal and
local governments will spend
Its mimoo on the Great
Lakea restocking program
I and have spent more than
1175 million In the past IT
years to replenish the
fisheries decimated by the
sea lamprey, according to
Rood's figures. ................
Mare than HO million lake
trout, aptake, and various
salmon have been rein
troduced ss
wedal iml
Ilians of rainbow, brock and
brown trout. Sport fisherman
alone contribute about MO
i million annually to tbs
economy of the Great Lakes
statoa and Ontario, Road
aakl.
"AO our efforts are for
naught if those fish cannot be
harvested and now we lace
this stark poasibUity," said
Reed.
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