Nuke plant's hatchery churns out healthy fish

In cartoons, fish that grow up in waters around nuclear power plants end up with three eyes or some other deformity.

In reality, Exelon Nuclear's Quad-Cities Generating Station in Cordova, Ill., operates the only privately owned fish hatchery on the Mississippi River and has reared and released about 6 million healthy fish since 1984.

LINK (Via: The Quad City Times)

Celebrity fly fishing at 2 Mile Island.

California’s Wild Steelhead Protections Upheld by Federal Appeals Court

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected an attempt to strip protected status from wild steelhead trout in California’s Central Valley.

A group of Central Valley irrigators had argued that ocean-going Central Valley steelhead population should be removed from the endangered species list based on their opinion that freshwater rainbow trout – which never go to sea – might someday replace extinct steelhead populations.

LINK (Via: YubaNet)

This just in!

Central Valley irrigators vowed to appeal based on their opinion that freshwater rainbow trout might someday fly out of their collective ass.

'I have seen a big pike jump in the net and eat the fish before but never a frog."

LINK (Via:The Daily Mail)

Large bait fish kill on the Joisey Shore

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Nick, 16, was fishing for common carp, which are in the same family as goldfish, when he saw a flash of bright orange in the water.

Seconds later, his rod bowed with the bulk of the huge fish.

LINK (Via:The Sun)

If You Can't Beat Em? Eat Em

Illinois Guv Pat Quinn just signed an agreement yesterday to send as much as 30 million pounds of Asian carp to China.

LINK (Via: JS On-line)