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Environmental activists and local fishermen will stage a rally today to protest the planned sale of offshore oil drilling rights on George's Bank...
...Sports fishermen had largely given up on the lakes, as stocks of walleyed pike, lake trout and other game species disappeared...
...comeback. Virtually wiped out by overfishing, pollution and the eellike sea lamprey (an ocean predator that apparently first migrated from the Hudson River into the lakes after man had opened the way with the Erie Canal, the native lake trout is again being pulled from the lakes by sports fishermen, who now can also catch coho and chinook salmon from the Pacific Ocean. Still, despite the fact that the waters are cleaner and the lamprey has been contained by a concerted attack on its breeding ground, the game fish population can be sustained only by frequent replanting. Says K.H. Loftus...
Toxic substances in the lakes are now the environmentalists' major concern The levels of such chemicals as mirex (an insecticide), PCBs and mercury are still too high to allow the resumption of commercial fishing, and Canada publishes a guide that warns sports fishermen which fish are unsafe to eat. Says Leila Botts, chairman of the Great Lakes Basin Commission...
...fishermen, whose families have worked these waters for 350 years, all this makes Georges Bank far too precious a place to sink an oil well. Another appeal has been filed to stop the auction, though its chances seem slim. If the leases are sold, the fishermen will have a grace period of from six months to a year while the oil companies make preparations to drill. That means time for a new and different case on different grounds. But the fishermen's hope will be the same: to keep their livelihood alive and well...