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vi.PA r*Y, CM. Ini'* I !Jt!vALD o ui: ::.av,\:i, NOV 2 2 ^ 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. MONS 033*26