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...throughout the U.S., other watering places have begun to regenerate, reversing the pro cesses of civilization. In the Hudson River, Virginia spot have begun to spawn again; trout are slowly returning to the Willimantic River in Connecticut...
...irreversible. A decade ago, Oregon's Willamette River was the most polluted waterway in the Pacific Northwest. Even scavenging fish could not survive its toxic atmosphere. After a concerted drive by environ mentalists, government officials and just plain anglers, the river has become so pure that the delicate trout and salmon can be found throughout its reaches...
Alas for town-fatherhood, vexed like all fatherhood. The shark continues to lurk near Amity, snapping up summer people like a trout after May flies, and there go the old property values. Chief Brody does not much like summer people, or the little crocodiles they wear on their tennis shirts, but he decides to hunt the fish...
...estate's 6½ wooded acres border on a private lake (stocked, of course with trout and bass), and the property includes a swimming pool and a barbecue pit big enough to broil a hippo. Future owners have access to the 55-horse stable, the 20 miles of bridle paths, trap-and skeet-shooting facilities of Smoke Rise-a private, walled and guarded community for the well-to-do located some 25 miles from Manhattan...
...some processes are tough to reverse, and pollution is prominent among them. Most of the Charles's fish are dead, for example, although there are still occasional schools of goldfish to startle the unwary passerby. "The first ones to die are the nicest ones, really," Noss said mournfully. "Trout need five parts oxygen per million, and carp need only point five parts. And down at the bottom of the Lower Basin, it's constant by now, really, there's almost no oxygen at all, so there are no organisms to clean...