The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission says it will take a lot more work, and a lot more data, to figure out what is causing black spots on small mouth bass in the Susquehanna River. A commission scientist wrote to a fisherman in response to the angler’s pleas for lab tests. The fisherman, William Yingling, [...]
Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Michael Krancer has rejected a request from the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission to list the Susquehanna River as “impaired” under the Clean Water Act. Fish and Boat Commission executive director John Arway wrote a letter to Krancer April 4, describing increased incidents of “black-spotted” fish turning up in the [...]
William Yingling has been fishing the same spot on the Susquehanna River for 35 years. But over the last 2 to 3 years, he says he’s caught small mouth bass with black spots. Yingling is also a retired family practitioner, and worries the black spots are melanomas caused by endocrine disrupters in the water. Yingling’s [...]
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