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Trust the WSJ to Parrot Ann and Nancy's BS
Submitted by Ted Williams on Mon, 11/07/2011 - 23:08.




WSJ Anti-rotenone Article
I posted this on our fly fishing message board (http://www.wisflyfishing.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl) and even there I had folks expressing sympathy for Ann's pseudo-science. What I'm looking for are links to some case studies of rotenone treated, restored streams to repost on our site. Thanks.
How depressing!
Ann and Nancy and their chemophobe sycophants spread this BS and the ecologically illiterate public and media just suck it up. There are hundreds of highly successful fish restoration projects that have been made possible by rotenone and antimycin (no longer being made, alas). Here are just a few. Google them for the biologists you should interview. I’ve written about most of these:
Apache Trout
Appalachian Brook Trout
Blueback trout
Golden Trout
Greenback Cutthroat (possibly the greatest success story of the Endangered Species Act)
Gila Trout
Bonneville cutthroat
Westslope cutthroat
Yellowstone cutthroat
Bull Trout
Colorado River cutthroat
Lahontan cutthroat
Rio Grande cutthroat
Paiute cutthroat (If not for post rotenone use we wouldn’t have any Paiute’s left to argue about with idiots.)
Steelhead trout
Chinook salmon
coho salmon
(and, I have no doubt, the other three Pacific salmon).
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